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  2. Decision fatigue - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, individuals experiencing decision fatigue may display less persistence when putting effort into decision making, and thus may be prone to choosing the ‘default’ option. [13] They may also be prone to impulsive, erratic or short-sighted behaviour. [14]

  3. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Effort justification is a person's tendency to attribute greater value to an outcome if they had to put effort into achieving it. This can result in more value being applied to an outcome than it actually has.

  4. Tacit knowledge - Wikipedia

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    This knowledge refers to things we could describe in principle if someone put effort into describing them. Somatic tacit knowledge: Somatic tacit knowledge has to do with properties of individuals bodies and brains as physical things. It includes things our bodies can do but we cannot describe how, like riding a bike.

  5. Sunk cost - Wikipedia

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    People demonstrate "a greater tendency to continue an endeavor once an investment in money, effort, or time has been made". [17] [18] This is the sunk cost fallacy, and such behavior may be described as "throwing good money after bad", [19] [14] while refusing to succumb to what may be described as "cutting one's losses". [14]

  6. Employee motivation - Wikipedia

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    Employee motivation is an intrinsic and internal drive to put forth the necessary effort and action towards work-related activities. It has been broadly defined as the "psychological forces that determine the direction of a person's behavior in an organisation, a person's level of effort and a person's level of persistence". [1]

  7. Persistence (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    1. Eagerness of effort (PS1) Measures attitudes towards putting effort into tasks, particularly when a reward is anticipated. 2. Work hardened (PS2). Indicates an individual's willingness to expend persisting effort in their tasks or goals. 3. Ambitious (PS3) Assesses how motivated, goal-focused, aspiring and determined an individual is. 4.

  8. Social loafing - Wikipedia

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    In social psychology, social loafing is the phenomenon of a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when working alone. [1] [2] It is seen as one of the main reasons groups are sometimes less productive than the combined performance of their members working as individuals.

  9. Lipstick on a pig - Wikipedia

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    The phrase to put "lipstick on a pig" means making superficial or cosmetic changes to a product in a futile effort to disguise its fundamental failings.There are many phrases using pigs, monkeys, or swine, dating back to ancient times.