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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Metacognition
  • Decision Making

Background:

  • Cognitive effort is understood as an inferential evaluation of explicit cues.
  • Metacognitive theories suggest awareness of cues related to cognitive demand is key to avoiding effortful actions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test if explicit awareness of task-demand-aligned cues is necessary for avoiding effortful actions.
  • To investigate if incentives can modulate effort avoidance behavior by encouraging monitoring of task-switching probabilities.

Main Methods:

  • A pre-registered experiment was conducted with an incentive manipulation (between-subjects).
  • Participants monitored two action lines varying in task-switch probability, with differences being subtle.
  • Effort avoidance was measured by choices in a task block instructing avoidance of effort.

Main Results:

  • Incentive manipulation did not significantly affect effort avoidance behavior.
  • Awareness of task-switching cues was found to increase the likelihood of demand avoidance.
  • The difference in task-switch probabilities was largely opaque to participants.

Conclusions:

  • Explicit awareness of task-relevant cues, rather than incentives, appears crucial for effort avoidance.
  • Findings support metacognitive accounts of cognitive effort, highlighting the role of cue awareness.