| Title |
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”: Motivation towards closure and effort investment in the performance of cognitive tasks
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| Published in |
Motivation and Emotion, April 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11031-017-9613-y |
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| Authors |
Sindhuja Sankaran, Ewa Szumowska, Małgorzata Kossowska |
| Abstract |
Previous studies have demonstrated that the need for closure (NFC), which refers to an individual's aversion toward uncertainty and the desire to quickly reduce it, leads to reluctance to invest effort in judgments and decision making. However, we argue that NFC may lead to either an increase or a decrease in effort depending on the availability of easy vs. difficult means to achieve closure and perceived importance of the task goal. We found that when closure could be achieved via both less and more demanding means, NFC was associated with decreased effort unless the task was perceived as important (Study 1). However, when attaining closure was possible via demanding means only, NFC was associated with increased effort, regardless of the task importance (Study 2). Moreover, NFC was related to choosing a more instrumental strategy for the goal of closure, even if this strategy required effort (Study 3). The results are discussed in the light of cognitive energetics theory. |
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