Automatic Effort Mobilization and the Principle of Resource Conservation: One Can Only Prime the Possible and Justified.
Two experiments tested the idea that the principle of resource conservation moderates and limits automaticity effects on effort mobilization. Effort-related cardiovascular response was assessed in cognitive tasks with different levels of task difficulty (Experiment 1) and success incentive (Experime...
| Published in: | Journal of Personality & Social Psychology Vol. 104; no. 5; pp. 803 - 817 |
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American Psychological Association
May2013
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