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NVI-rapporteringsår: 2014
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2015

Persistence Motives in Irrational Decisions to Complete a Boring Task

Bidragsytere:
  • Torleif Halkjelsvik og
  • Jostein Rise

Tidsskrift

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
ISSN 0146-1672
e-ISSN 1552-7433
NVI-nivå 2

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Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2015
Publisert online: 2014
Volum: 41
Hefte: 1
Sider: 90 - 102
Open Access

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Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-84918564011

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Tittel

Persistence Motives in Irrational Decisions to Complete a Boring Task

Sammendrag

We explored a novel task paradigm where participants from the online work marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk were given the choice to quit or continue an unfinished boring task for identical economic rewards. In Studies 1a and 1b, about half the participants chose to continue (corresponding to an average of 55 and 35 cents in foregone earnings). Participants' self-reported reasons for continuing involved various types of persistence motives, reflecting a desire to persist or complete per se. Studies 2, 3a, 3b, and 3c ruled out the possibility that people continued because they enjoyed the task or believed there were additional rewards for continuing. Study 4 showed that the choice to quit/continue was associated with the manner in which the choice was presented (persistence test vs. decision-making test) and individual differences in dispositional persistence motives. The present data indicate that motivational forces independent of the focal reward may affect intertemporal decisions.

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Torleif Bjordal Halkjelsvik

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    ved Avdeling for rusmidler og tobakk ved Folkehelseinstituttet
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Jostein Rise

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    ved Folkehelseinstituttet
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