People underestimate their capability to motivate themselves without performance-based extrinsic incentives.

IF 1.7 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Motivation and Emotion Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-12-28 DOI:10.1007/s11031-022-09996-5

Kei Kuratomi, Laura Johnsen, Shinji Kitagami, Aya Hatano, Kou Murayama

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Research has shown that we are endowed with a remarkable capacity to motivate ourselves in the absence of extrinsic incentives (i.e. intrinsic motivation). However, little research has been conducted to investigate whether we accurately appreciate the power of intrinsic motivation. The current research aimed to examine the metacognitive accuracy of the extent to which people can motivate themselves without performance-based extrinsic incentives. Participants were presented with a relatively long and repetitive task without extrinsic incentives, and before doing the task, they were asked to predict their motivation on completion of the task. Across seven experiments using a variety of tasks with different populations from different countries, participants were consistently engaged in the task more actively than they predicted. When participants were provided with performance-based monetary rewards, however, this bias was diminished. These results indicate that we tend to underappreciate our capability to sustain our motivation without extrinsic incentives.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11031-022-09996-5.

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如果没有基于绩效的外在激励，人们就会低估自己激励自己的能力。

研究表明，在没有外在激励（即内在激励）的情况下，我们被赋予了非凡的自我激励能力。然而，很少有研究来调查我们是否准确地认识到内在动机的力量。目前的研究旨在检验在没有基于绩效的外在激励的情况下，人们可以在多大程度上激励自己的元认知准确性。参与者被要求在没有外在激励的情况下完成一项相对较长且重复的任务，在完成任务之前，他们被要求预测完成任务的动机。在对来自不同国家的不同人群进行的七项实验中，参与者始终比他们预测的更积极地参与任务。然而，当参与者获得基于绩效的金钱奖励时，这种偏见就减少了。这些结果表明，我们往往低估了在没有外在激励的情况下维持动机的能力。补充信息：在线版本包含补充材料，可访问10.1007/s11031-022-09996-5。

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期刊介绍： Motivation and Emotion publishes articles on human motivational and emotional phenomena that make theoretical advances by linking empirical findings to underlying processes. Submissions should focus on key problems in motivation and emotion, and, if using non-human participants, should contribute to theories concerning human behavior. Articles should be explanatory rather than merely descriptive, providing the data necessary to understand the origins of motivation and emotion, to explicate why, how, and under what conditions motivational and emotional states change, and to document that these processes are important to human functioning.A range of methodological approaches are welcome, with methodological rigor as the key criterion. Manuscripts that rely exclusively on self-report data are appropriate, but published articles tend to be those that rely on objective measures (e.g., behavioral observations, psychophysiological responses, reaction times, brain activity, and performance or achievement indicators) either singly or combination with self-report data.The journal generally does not publish scale development and validation articles. However, it is open to articles that focus on the post-validation contribution that a new measure can make. Scale development and validation work therefore may be submitted if it is used as a necessary prerequisite to follow-up studies that demonstrate the importance of the new scale in making a theoretical advance.