Cognitive effort is described as aversive, and people will generally avoid it when possible.
This aversion to effort is believed to arise from a cost–benefit analysis of the actions …

Theoretical accounts typically posit that variability in social behaviour is a function of
capacity limits. We argue that many social behaviours are goal-directed and effortful, and …

People often use external reminders to help remember delayed intentions. This is a form of
“cognitive offloading”. Individuals sometimes offload more often than would be optimal …

We test the core ideas of the “automata” approach to bounded rationality, using simple
experimental bandit tasks. Optimality requires subjects to use a moderately complex …

In the context of instructional design and self-regulated learning research, the notion of
mental effort allocation, monitoring, and control has gained increasing attention. Bringing …

Research in the past decades shed light on the different mechanisms that underlie our
capacity for cognitive control. However, the meta-level processes that regulate cognitive …

Despite decades of research in the fields of judgment and decision-making, social
psychology, cognitive psychology, human-machine interaction, behavioral economics, and …

Smooth pursuit eye movements maintain the line of sight on smoothly moving targets.
Although often studied as a response to sensory motion, pursuit anticipates changes in …

We present theory and research on effort mobilization that is relevant for understanding the
role of affect in cognitive control. We posit that cognitive control and effort are closely related …

Recent work has highlighted neural mechanisms underlying cognitive effort-related
discounting of anticipated rewards. However, findings on whether effort exertion alters the …