Dispositional cognitive effort investment and behavioral demand avoidance: Are they related?

ABSTRACT: Individuals tend to avoid cognitive demand, yet, individual differences appear to exist. Recent evidence from two studies suggests that individuals high in the personality traits Self-Control and Need for Cognition that are related to the broader construct Cognitive Effort Investment are less prone to avoid cognitive demand and show less effort discounting. These findings suggest that cost-benefit models of decision-making that integrate the costs due to effort should consider individual differences in the willingness to exert mental effort. However, to date, there are almost no replication attempts of the above findings. For the present conceptual replication, we concentrated on the avoidance of cognitive demand and used a longitudinal design and latent state-trait modeling. This approach

SUBMITTER: Strobel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7556472 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature