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  2. Choke (sports) - Wikipedia

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    An increase in worry decreases attention resources. According to PET, athletes put extra effort into their performance when under pressure, to eliminate negative performance. Eysenck and Calvo found processing efficiency is affected by negative anxiety more than performance effectiveness.

  3. Glossary of cricket terms - Wikipedia

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    Of a pace bowler, to put in extra effort to extract extra speed or bounce. [1] Benefit season A series of fundraising events to reward a long-serving player, typically those who have played over a decade for a single county cricket team, shortly before the player retires. Similar in concept to testimonial matches played in other sports. Best ...

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    In other words, the inflected pronoun forms are signaling more that just grammatical case in a nicely symmetrical pattern: Subject: he and I are going to the store (formal) me and him are going to the store (informal) Object: Stop kicking he and I (formal) Stop kicking me and him (informal) Prepositional Complement: You put the ball between he ...

  5. 12 Holiday Recipes That Are So Worth The Extra Time And Effort

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    Fruitcake. Step one of a fruitcake is soaking pounds of dried fruit until it's plump and filled with bourbon. That takes up to 12 hours. Step two is simple: making and baking the loaves.

  6. Incentive - Wikipedia

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    Expectancy theory implies that, provided employees place sufficient value on the monetary incentive to justify their extra effort and perceive that greater effort will result in better performance, such incentives can motivate employees to maintain high levels of effort and discourage shirking. This in turn increases the individual productivity ...

  7. Fairness leads to higher levels of well-being and ... - AOL

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    At the 2023 Fortune Best Small and Medium Workplaces, 86% of employees believe they get a fair share of profits.

  8. Learned industriousness - Wikipedia

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    Learned helplessness is a term to explain a specific pattern of behavior that occurs in both animals and humans. When an animal or human is consistently exposed to an aversive condition (pain, unpleasant noise, etc.) and is unable to escape this condition, that animal or human will become helpless and stop attempting escape.

  9. Gift-exchange game - Wikipedia

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    To put in other words, If the employer expects the employee to put in a higher effort when offered a higher salary it may be in the employees best interests to put in a greater effort. Additionally, if the employee puts in a higher effort it may result in an increase in wage down the track.