Is providing choices always a good thing? the backfire effect of providing choices on competence restoration

•Providing choices impaired one’s intrinsic motivation after competence frustration.•RewP was adopted to objectively measure one’s intrinsic motivation.•Providing choices was found to impede competence restoration. Grounded in self-determination theory (SDT), the purpose of this research is to inves...

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Published in:Neuroscience letters 2024-02, Vol.822, p.137632, Article 137632
Main Authors: He, Yue, Mo, Zan, Fang, Hui, Li, Mengyin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Choices
Competence frustration
Event-related potentials (ERPs)
Evoked Potentials
Humans
Intrinsic motivation
Motivation
Reward
Reward positivity (RewP)
Self Report
Self-determination theory
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