The Effect of Perceived Effort on Reward Valuation: Taking the Reward Positivity (RewP) to Dissonance Theory

The present research was designed to test whether the subjective experience of more effort related to more reward valuation as measured by a neural response. This prediction was derived from the theory of cognitive dissonance and its effort justification paradigm. Young adult participants (n = 82) e...

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Main Authors: Eddie Harmon-Jones, Daniel Clarke, Katharina Paul, Cindy Harmon-Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00157/full