Halkjelsvik Torleif, Rise Jostein
Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research, Oslo, Norway
Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research, Oslo, Norway.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2015 Jan;41(1):90-102. doi: 10.1177/0146167214557008. Epub 2014 Oct 29.
We explored a novel task paradigm where participants from the online work marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk were given the choice to quit or continue an unfinished boring task for identical economic rewards. In Studies 1a and 1b, about half the participants chose to continue (corresponding to an average of 55 and 35 cents in foregone earnings). Participants' self-reported reasons for continuing involved various types of persistence motives, reflecting a desire to persist or complete per se. Studies 2, 3a, 3b, and 3c ruled out the possibility that people continued because they enjoyed the task or believed there were additional rewards for continuing. Study 4 showed that the choice to quit/continue was associated with the manner in which the choice was presented (persistence test vs. decision-making test) and individual differences in dispositional persistence motives. The present data indicate that motivational forces independent of the focal reward may affect intertemporal decisions.
我们探索了一种新颖的任务范式，在该范式中，来自在线工作平台亚马逊土耳其机器人的参与者可以选择放弃或继续一项未完成的无聊任务，而获得的经济奖励相同。在研究1a和1b中，约一半的参与者选择继续（放弃的收入平均分别为55美分和35美分）。参与者自我报告的继续原因涉及各种类型的坚持动机，反映出坚持或完成任务本身的愿望。研究2、3a、3b和3c排除了人们继续是因为喜欢该任务或认为继续会有额外奖励的可能性。研究4表明，放弃/继续的选择与选择的呈现方式（坚持测试与决策测试）以及性格坚持动机的个体差异有关。目前的数据表明，独立于主要奖励的动机力量可能会影响跨期决策。
