Who is satisfied with effort?
Supervisor
Dr Irena Domachowska
Team
Georgia Clay, Carmen Dumitrescu, Claudia Fiorucci, Janina Habenicht, Izzy Kmiecik, & Marzia Musetti
Project outline
The amount of effort required to obtain certain rewards may influence the level of satisfaction with effort and the following reward. Since people differ in beliefs about the availability of willpower resources required to pursue effortful actions, we will investigate how willpower beliefs affect satisfaction with effort and reward. We hypothesize that people holding limited willpower beliefs (i.e., believing that exerting effort leads to depletion of their inner resources) will be less satisfied with their efforts and the subsequent reward than people holding non-limited beliefs (i.e., believing that exerting effort is invigorating rather than depleting). We will test this hypothesis by manipulating effort with different levels of the N-Back task and measuring participants‘ subjective satisfaction depending on their willpower beliefs.