Dissociable Effects of Monetary, Liquid, and Social Incentives on Motivation and Cognitive Control
Humans are social creatures and, as such, can be motivated by aspects of social life (e.g., approval from others) to guide decision-making in everyday contexts. Indeed, a common view is that people may have stronger orientation toward social goals or incentives relative to other incentive modalities...
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| author | Jennifer L. Crawford Debbie M. Yee Haijing W. Hallenbeck Ashton Naumann Katherine Shapiro Renee J. Thompson Todd S. Braver |
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| description | Humans are social creatures and, as such, can be motivated by aspects of social life (e.g., approval from others) to guide decision-making in everyday contexts. Indeed, a common view is that people may have stronger orientation toward social goals or incentives relative to other incentive modalities, such as food or money. However, current studies have only rarely addressed how social incentives compare to other types of rewards in motivating goal-directed behavior. The current study tested this claim; across two separate experiments, the effects of liquid and social incentives were compared in terms of their subsequent impact on task performance and self-reported affect and motivation. Critically, valenced social incentives offered both ecological validity (short video clips—Experiment 1) and continuity with prior stimuli used in the social reward and motivation literature (static images—Experiment 2) when examining their effect on behavior. Across both studies, the results replicate and extend prior work, demonstrating robust effects of liquid incentives on task performance and self-reported affect and motivation, while also supporting an interpretation of weaker motivational and affective effects for social incentives. These patterns of results highlight the complex and wide-ranging effects of social incentives and call into question the effectiveness of social incentives, relative to other incentive modalities, in motivating behavior. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3e62a30e7ccc456fb6eb81548705c2092022-12-21T19:20:36ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-09-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.02212557804Dissociable Effects of Monetary, Liquid, and Social Incentives on Motivation and Cognitive ControlJennifer L. CrawfordDebbie M. YeeHaijing W. HallenbeckAshton NaumannKatherine ShapiroRenee J. ThompsonTodd S. BraverHumans are social creatures and, as such, can be motivated by aspects of social life (e.g., approval from others) to guide decision-making in everyday contexts. Indeed, a common view is that people may have stronger orientation toward social goals or incentives relative to other incentive modalities, such as food or money. However, current studies have only rarely addressed how social incentives compare to other types of rewards in motivating goal-directed behavior. The current study tested this claim; across two separate experiments, the effects of liquid and social incentives were compared in terms of their subsequent impact on task performance and self-reported affect and motivation. Critically, valenced social incentives offered both ecological validity (short video clips—Experiment 1) and continuity with prior stimuli used in the social reward and motivation literature (static images—Experiment 2) when examining their effect on behavior. Across both studies, the results replicate and extend prior work, demonstrating robust effects of liquid incentives on task performance and self-reported affect and motivation, while also supporting an interpretation of weaker motivational and affective effects for social incentives. These patterns of results highlight the complex and wide-ranging effects of social incentives and call into question the effectiveness of social incentives, relative to other incentive modalities, in motivating behavior.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02212/fullsocial motivationcognitive controlprimary incentivesrewarddecision-making |
| spellingShingle | Jennifer L. Crawford Debbie M. Yee Haijing W. Hallenbeck Ashton Naumann Katherine Shapiro Renee J. Thompson Todd S. Braver Dissociable Effects of Monetary, Liquid, and Social Incentives on Motivation and Cognitive Control Frontiers in Psychology social motivation cognitive control primary incentives reward decision-making |
| title | Dissociable Effects of Monetary, Liquid, and Social Incentives on Motivation and Cognitive Control |
| title_full | Dissociable Effects of Monetary, Liquid, and Social Incentives on Motivation and Cognitive Control |
| title_fullStr | Dissociable Effects of Monetary, Liquid, and Social Incentives on Motivation and Cognitive Control |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dissociable Effects of Monetary, Liquid, and Social Incentives on Motivation and Cognitive Control |
| title_short | Dissociable Effects of Monetary, Liquid, and Social Incentives on Motivation and Cognitive Control |
| title_sort | dissociable effects of monetary liquid and social incentives on motivation and cognitive control |
| topic | social motivation cognitive control primary incentives reward decision-making |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02212/full |
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