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title

Motivational Based Performance Trade-Off in Sequential Tasks and the Role of Mind-Wandering

author

Lübber, Finn

abstract

Mind-wandering is detrimental for performance on ongoing tasks, but can also exert beneficial functions, e.g., in planning. Using two sequential tasks (SART and celebrity name listing) in a repeated blocks design with seven blocks, this study seeks to investigate motivational effects on mind-wandering rates and performance on these tasks. By manipulating motivation for these two tasks using money- and credit hours-based incentives, we investigated a) if a higher motivation to work on the first task (SART) went along with lower mind-wandering rates and a higher performance on that task and a lower performance on the second (name listing), and b) if a lower motivation for the first, but higher motivation for the second task led to more mind-wandering towards this second task and an enhanced performance on it, while reducing performance on task 1.

subject

Attention

Mind-wandering

Motivation

Performance

SART

contributor

Masicampo, Emer J (committee chair)

Dagenbach, Dale (committee member)

Stone, Eric R (committee member)

Kane, Michael J (committee member)

date

2020-05-29T08:36:06Z (accessioned)

2020-05-29T08:36:06Z (available)

2020 (issued)

degree

Psychology (discipline)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/96840 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis