Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo.
Psychological Clinical Science, University of Toronto.
J Exp Psychol Gen. 2017 Dec;146(12):1677-1693. doi: 10.1037/xge0000334.
Our willingness to persist in problem solving is often held up as a critical component in being successful. Allied against this ability, however, are a number of situational factors that undermine our persistence. In the present investigation, the authors examine 1 such factor-knowing that the answers to a problem are easily accessible. Does having answers to a problem available reduce our willingness to persist in solving it ourselves? Across 4 experiments, participants (university students from a large Canadian University) solved multisolution anagrams and were either provided the answers after giving up (and knew they would receive the answers) or not. Results demonstrated that individuals persisted for less time in the former condition. In addition, participants did not seem to be aware of the effect that answers had on their decisions to quit. Implications for our understanding of the role that access to answers has on persistence across a number of domains (e.g., education, Internet) are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
我们坚持解决问题的意愿通常被认为是成功的关键因素。然而，有许多情况因素会削弱我们的坚持能力。在本研究中，作者研究了这样一个因素——知道问题的答案很容易获得。知道问题的答案是否会降低我们自己解决问题的意愿？通过 4 项实验，参与者（来自加拿大一所大型大学的学生）解决了多解决方案字谜游戏，并在放弃后（并知道他们将得到答案）或不提供答案。结果表明，个体在前一种情况下坚持的时间更短。此外，参与者似乎没有意识到答案对他们放弃决定的影响。讨论了这一发现对我们理解在许多领域（例如，教育、互联网）中答案的可获得性对坚持的作用的影响。（心理学文献摘要
