I am used to reporting null results, but in this project, we actually found (& replicated!) the exact opposite of what we predicted 😅 working harder caused people to be *more* likely to gamble with their payment - we outline several speculative explanations in the paper
Reposted from Michael Inzlicht
New paper accepted at @collabrapsychology.bsky.social with @jonasdora.bsky.social that challenges how we think about mental effort and risk-taking. The findings genuinely surprised us.

Effort expenditure decreases risk aversion when dealing with gains but not losses /1

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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