Reward Salience and Choice in a Controlling Context: A Lab Experiment.

ABSTRACT: One of the challenges in the motivation literature is examining the simultaneous effect of different motivational mechanisms on overall motivation and performance. The motivational congruence theory addresses this by stipulating that different motivational mechanisms can reinforce each other if they have similar effects on the perceived locus of causality. Reward salience and choice are two motivational mechanisms which their joint effects have been long debated. Built upon the motivational congruence effect, a recent empirical study affirms that a salient reward in a condition characterized by lack of choice and a non-salient reward in a condition characterized by provision of choice both increase overall motivation and performance. In this study, we examine the effect of reward salience

SUBMITTER: Hendijani R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9083268 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature