Rewards and performance: A comparison across creative and routine tasks

Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas; Bradler, Christiane

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“…Our result of a weak or no prize effect is consistent with Araujo et al (2016) who perform a between-subject comparison of slider task performance varying incentives and find only weak incentive effects. There are, however, other studies that do find that slider positioning efforts respond positively and significantly to increases in financial incentives (e.g., Abeler and Jäger 2015;Lee 2015;Neckermann, Warnke, and Bradler 2014). Note that nonmonotonic responses to changes in piece rates are observed in between-subject studies of other real-effort tasks (e.g., Ariely et al 2009;Gneezy and Rustichini 2000).…”

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Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real‐effort Competition

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2017

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“…it was unique to the idea pool). Evaluating originality in this manner has been widely adopted in previous research (Bradler et al ., 2014). Scoring for the above three measures was done by two research assistants who were acquainted with the task and the scoring procedures and were blind to the treatments.…”

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“…providing customer support), and creative tasks, which require users to stretch their thoughts to provide creative solutions (e.g. generating new ideas for a marketing campaign) (Bradler et al ., 2014; Brüggen et al ., 2018). For both types of tasks, user engagement and task performance are two important metrics in both research and practice (Agarwal and Karahanna, 2000).…”

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Avatar design in Metaverse: the effect of avatar-user similarity in procedural and creative tasks

Zhu,

2023

INTR

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PurposeThrough the lens of self-perception theory, this paper investigates how avatar design (i.e. avatar user similarity) affects users' self-awareness and shapes their task engagement and performance in the Metaverse.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a 2 (avatar user similarity: high vs low) × 2 (task type: procedural vs creative) lab experiment and collected data from questionnaires, the recording of users' behavior during tasks and their actual task performance.FindingsThe results show that higher avatar user similarity leads to higher task engagement in general. Furthermore, while a similar avatar promotes users to regulate their behaviors and achieve better performance in a procedural task, high similarity also inhibits users' creativity by invoking habitual thinking, resulting in worse performance in generating original ideas in a creative task.Originality/valueThis study is expected to contribute to the information systems literature by revealing the value of avatar design and providing new perspectives on improving users' experiences in the Metaverse.

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“…Each one attends three sessions. At the start of the first session, they observe the result of a random variable that determines how many minutes they can perform some pleasant activity (or avoid an activity that entails disutility or effort; for instance, some repetitive task, Neckermann et al , 2014, or Augenblick and Rabin, 2018). During the first two sessions, they choose between spending the minutes they won or saving them for next session; this allows estimation of the individual utility parameters β and δ which in turn can be used to estimate Dv , the cost of suffering a present bias without taking care of it.…”

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Uncertainty under hyperbolic discounting: the cost of untying your hands

Alcocer

Ortegón

Roa

2019

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Purpose The relevance of present consumption bias on personal finance has been confirmed in several studies and has important theoretical and practical implications. It has important, measurable implications when analyzing commitment or self-control, adherence to healthy habits (e.g. exercising or dieting), procrastination tendencies or savings. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of these issues by postulating a model of income uncertainty within a hyperbolic discounting framework that measures the cost of financial intertemporal inconsistencies related to this bias. The emphasis is on the analysis of this cost. We also propose experimental designs and consistent estimation methods, as well as agent-based modelling extensions. Design/methodology/approach The authors develop a finite-horizon model with hyperbolic preferences. Individuals have a present bias distinct from their discount rate so their choices face intertemporal inconsistencies. The authors further extend the analysis with uncertainty about future incomes. Specifically, individuals live for three periods, and the authors find the optimal consumption levels in the perfect-information benchmark by backward induction. They then proceed to add biases and uncertainty to characterize their implications and measure the costs of the intertemporal inconsistencies they cause. Findings The authors measure how an agent's utility is greater when they “tie their hands” than when they are free to re-evaluate and change their consumption schedule. This “cost of being vulnerable to falling into temptation” only depends (increasingly) on the measure of the present bias and (decreasingly) on the discount factor. They analyze the varying effects on utility and consumption of changes in impatience and optimism. They conclude by discussing theoretical and practical implications; they also propose agent-based simulations, as well as empirical and experimental designs, to further test the relevance and applications of the results. Practical implications This model has important, measurable implications when analyzing commitment or self-control, adherence to healthy habits (e.g. exercising or dieting), procrastination tendencies or savings. Social implications The results enhance the estimation of the costs of present biases such that employers can better identify the incentives required to acquire and retain human capital. The authors provide evidence that workers are vulnerable to contract renegotiations and about the need for a regulator that restores ex-ante efficiency. Similarly, in the private sector, firms could recognize the postulated consumer profiles and focus their resources on anxious, too-optimistic or potentially addictive consumers; this, again, provides some justification about the need for a regulator. Originality/value In traditional exponential discounting, the marginal rate of substitution of consumption between two points depends only on their distance; thus, it allows none of the intertemporal inconsistencies we often observe in real life. Therefore, hyperbolic discounting better fits the data. The authors model choice under uncertainty and focus on the costs caused when present biases (ex-post) push behaviour away from ex-ante optimality. They conclude by proposing experimental designs to further enhance the estimation and implications of these costs. The postulated refinements have the potential to improve previous analyses on commitment devices and commitment-related regulation.

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Rewards and performance: A comparison across creative and routine tasks

Cited by 5 publications

References 76 publications

Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real‐effort Competition

Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real‐effort Competition

Avatar design in Metaverse: the effect of avatar-user similarity in procedural and creative tasks

Uncertainty under hyperbolic discounting: the cost of untying your hands

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