www.nature.com/articles/s44... New research Article by @mlapietra.bsky.social @manuruz.bsky.social and colleagues in the journal (in Press).
The experience of cognitive conflict is intrinsically rewarding - Communications Psychology
Across two online experiments (N = 200), we show that people freely choose to engage in cognitive conflict (Simon and Stroop tasks) without external rewards. Perceived as effortful yet enjoyable, cogn...
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