TY - JOUR
AU - McClure, Samuel M.
AB - Building cognitive abilities often requires sustained engagement with effortful tasks. We demonstrate that beliefs about willpower–whether willpower is viewed as a limited or non-limited resource–impact sustained learning on a strenuous mental task. As predicted, beliefs about willpower did not affect accuracy or improvement during the initial phases of learning; however, participants who were led to view willpower as non-limited showed greater sustained learning over the full duration of the task. These findings highlight the interactive nature of motivational and cognitive processes: motivational factors can substantially affect people’s ability to recruit their cognitive resources to sustain learning over time.
TI - Theories of Willpower Affect Sustained Learning
JF - PLoS ONE
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0038680
DA - 2012-06-22
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/pubmed-central/theories-of-willpower-affect-sustained-learning-2B4u3kLQtl
SP - e38680
VL - 7
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -