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Subjective magnitude
We weigh negatives twice as heavily as positives. This is similar to loss aversion: We prefer avoiding losses than acquiring equivalent gains.
Loss aversion focuses narrowly on losses and gains, however, while subjective magnitude broadly considers positive and negative events.
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Positive and negative anticipation
A study from the University of British Columbia analyzed the effects of positive and negative anticipation.
The conclusions show that we tend to want a yummy snack immediately but prefer to delay paying our bills. This seems to make intuitive sense, but the researchers wanted to dig deepe...
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Anticipation asymmetry
Anticipation pushes against our natural tendency to want good things now and bad things later.
We'd rather get negative experiences over with to avoid the dread of waiting. Yet this desire is not as powerful as wanting positive experiences immediately.
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Using dread as a motivator
That idea was put forward at Fast Company: "Don't want to do something? Tell yourself that it will be horrible. The worst. A godforsaken burden."
Immediate gratification is more strongly woven into our DNA than dread. Yet dread can be a motivational tool as well. Co...
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Modelling motivation: rationality, signaling and bias
- Rational choice theory suggests that human behaviour is underpinned by the motivations of each individual. More specifically, this theory models human beings as utility-maximizers, according to a set of preferences. If you give people a set of actions to choose from, th...
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