Johnson, David; Davis, Brent; Oxoby, Rob - Department of Economics, University of Calgary - 2014
Are productivity increases from small amounts of stress (or shocks) in an economic task dependent upon the content of … the shock? It has been found small amounts of stress can lead to an increase in memory. We examine if the same is true … with productivity in an economic experiment and whether it depends on the content of the stress. In our first experiment we …