Personal success often requires the choice to expend greater effort for larger rewards, and deficits in such effortful decision making accompany a number of illnesses including depression ...

Before we move on to Anthony's recycling efforts, let's take a moment and ask a vital question: Why would someone expend the effort, risk damaging the environment, and possibly harm themselves in ...

“The willingness to expend effort is something crucial to our survival and something that we use every day,” adds senior author Michael Treadway, a research professor in the psychology ...

If things are too easy or too difficult, your motivation will wane. But if you can expend effort on things that are difficult but achievable, you’ll be stimulated to succeed. Work together.

And how might long-term uncertainty experienced by an entire population affect community health? “Uncertainty means ambiguity, which means that we have to expend effort in trying to predict what will ...

In a stylized model of a financial intermediary, risk managers can expend effort to reduce loan probability of default (PD) and loss given default (LGD), but effort is costly and unobservable.