Exerting cognitive effort has been linked with making unhealthy choices. In the past, the link has been explained via a ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s survey of 319 knowledge workers across various industries. Participants shared nearly 1,000 examples of how they ...

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 ...

A new study published in Psychological Medicine sheds light on how specific depression symptoms are related to decisions about how much effort people are willing to put into tasks. Higher anxiety was ...

Additionally, the concept of cognitive conflict has been explored in relation to effort. Studies found that priming participants with cognitive conflict increased their cardiovascular responses ...

It is known that an increase in cognitive effort directly leads to an increase in dilation of the pupil of the eye. Our lab uses the latest eye-tracking software to measure pupil size as participants ...

Think It Through Using artificial intelligence instead of the real thing seems, per a new study, to actually be atrophying folks' mental faculties. As flagged by the fine folks at 404 Media, this new ...