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monetary incentives for accurate recall, but partially by high incentives. Thus, it seems that motivation and identity …
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In this paper we develop a theoretical model concerning self-control, motivation and commitment. The model, based on …, inferior and has to exercise self-control to resist temptation. A random, time-variant degree of motivation is introduced to … influence his cost of self-control. We introduce an investment-payoff combination as a commitment device that can help the agent …
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-leisure self-control problem. We externally induce the goal bracket - daily goals or a weekly goal - and within that bracket let … externally enforced commitment that requires subjects to spend less than a minute each day on the task to get started working …
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We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students … a course-specific grade goal during one of the mentor-student meetings (goal treatment). A random subset of those … find that students in the goal treatment perform significantly better as compared to students in the control group, and …
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Empathy is considered a virtue, yet fails in many situations, leading to a basic question: when given a choice, do people avoid empathy? And if so, why? Whereas past work has focused on material and emotional costs of empathy, here we examined whether people experience empathy as cognitively...
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Marijuana Motives Measure, which focuses on four motivation factors for using cannabis and how they relate to different … the underlying motivation for cannabis use in adults' daily lives and its relation to individual characteristics and …
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