Influential theories in psychology, neuroscience, and economics assume that the exertion of
mental effort should feel aversive. Yet, this assumption is usually untested, and it is …

The basal forebrain cholinergic system (BFCS) has long been implicated in age-related
cognitive changes and the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Limitations of …

Conscientiousness (C) is manifested in orderly, responsible, industrious, ambitious, dutiful,
and rule-abiding behavior and in desired outcomes as diverse as work, health, and …

The review gives an introductory description of the successive development of data patterns
based on comparisons between hearing-impaired and normal hearing participants' speech …

Self-control denotes the ability to override current desires to render behavior consistent with
long-term goals. A key assumption is that self-control is required when short-term desires …

Choosing whether to exert effort to obtain rewards is fundamental to human motivated
behavior. However, the neural dynamics underlying the evaluation of reward and effort in …

Effort and the feeling of effort play important roles in many theoretical discussions, from
perception to self‐control and free will, from the nature of ownership to the nature of desert …

This experiment investigated how the personal choice of task characteristics influences
resource mobilization assessed as effort-related cardiac response during a task of clearly …

Two experiments with N= 221 university students investigated the impact of primed cognitive
conflict on effort assessed as cardiac response in tasks that were not conflict‐related …

Influential theories in psychology, neuroscience, and economics assume that the exertion of
mental effort should feel aversive. Yet, this assumption is usually untested, and it is …