The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people are averse to inconsistencies within their own minds. It offers one explanation for why people sometimes make an effort to adjust their ...

at first likely requiring considerable cognitive effort but, with practice, becoming more automatic. Cognitive reappraisal is free, available at any time, and useful in many daily life situations ...

Browsing through a recipe, shopping for the ingredients, putting the ingredients together, and producing the finished product ...

Higher anxiety was linked to a greater willingness to exert cognitive effort, while anhedonia and apathy increased physical effort avoidance. Those with more severe depression were less likely to ...

Furthermore, rats in the high-effort, no-rest group displayed increased locomotor activity after cocaine administration, supporting the idea that cognitive effort intensified reward sensitivity.

Most often, however, people don’t recognise just how much effort is required, considering it’s difficult to compare cognitive exertion to the physical effort of running 10km or lifting a heavy ...

Online tests of women's reaction times offer insights into cognitive function and could help fill data gaps on early cognitive problems, potentially shedding light on dementia development later in ...

Do the Effects of Perceptual Effort Generalize to Other Cases of Cognitive Challenge? In 1968 Patrick Rabbitt (Rabbitt, 1968) conducted a simple experiment that altered the landscape of our ...