Mental effort and discomfort: Testing the peak-end effect during a cognitively demanding task.

We applied the peak-end paradigm that was first introduced in the pain literature to examine the experience of effort and discomfort during a cognitively demanding working memory task. A total of 401 participants were asked to rate their effort and discomfort during and after the administration of a...

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Main Authors: Chia-Fen Hsu, Lee Propp, Larissa Panetta, Shane Martin, Stella Dentakos, Maggie E Toplak, John D Eastwood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5809041?pdf=render