Opportunity cost calculations only determine justified effort – Or, What happened to the resource conservation principle?

Gendolla, Guido H.E.; Richter, Michael

doi:10.1017/s0140525x13000988

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Opportunity cost calculations only determine justified effort – Or, What happened to the resource conservation principle?

ContributorsGendolla, Guido H.E.

; Richter, Michael

Published inBehavioral and brain sciences, vol. 36, no. 6, p. 686-687

Publication date2013-12-04

First online date2013-12-04

Abstract

We welcome the development of a new model on effort and performance and the critique on existing resource-based models. However, considering the vast evidence for the significant impact of experienced task demand on resource allocation, we conclude that Kurzban et al.'s opportunity cost model is only valid for one performance condition: if task demand is unknown or unspecified.

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Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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Geneva Motivation Lab

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GENDOLLA, Guido H.E., RICHTER, Michael. Opportunity cost calculations only determine justified effort – Or, What happened to the resource conservation principle? In: Behavioral and brain sciences, 2013, vol. 36, n° 6, p. 686–687. doi: 10.1017/s0140525x13000988

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PID : unige:190738
DOI : 10.1017/s0140525x13000988
PMID : 24304784

Additional URL for this publicationhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0140525X13000988/type/journal_article

Journal ISSN0140-525X

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