Can a Near Win Kindle Motivation? The Impact of Nearly Winning on Motivation for Unrelated Rewards
Abstract
Common intuition and research suggest that winning is more motivating than losing. However, we propose that just failing to obtain a reward (i.e., nearly winning it) in one task leads to broader, positive motivational effects on subsequent unrelated tasks relative to clearly losing or actually obtaining the reward. We manipulated a near-win experience using a game app in Experiments 1 through 3 and a lottery in Experiment 4. Our findings showed...
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Title
Can a Near Win Kindle Motivation? The Impact of Nearly Winning on Motivation for Unrelated Rewards
Published Date
May 4, 2015
Journal
Volume
26
Issue
6
Pages
701 - 708
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