Geistige Anstrengung scheint in vielen Situationen mit unangenehmen Gefühlen verbunden zu sein. Ergebnisse über alle Gruppen und Aufgaben hinweg zeigten, dass die Teilnehmer mit größerer geistiger Anstrengung ein größeres unangenehmes Gefühl verspürten.
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Synopsis: Mental exertion appears to be associated with unpleasant feelings in many situations, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. The researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 170 studies to examine how people generally experience mental effort. They did so by testing whether mental effort is associated with unpleasant feelings and whether that association depends on the task or the population involved. The results across all populations and tasks, showed the greater the mental effort, the greater the unpleasantness experienced by participants.
Introduction
If somebody complains that it hurts to think, they may be onto something, as mental exertion appears to be associated with unpleasant feelings in many situations, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
Main Digest
“Managers often encourage employees, and teachers often encourage students, to exert mental effort. On the surface, this seems to work well: Employees and students do often opt for mentally challenging activities,” said senior author Erik Bijleveld, PhD, of Radboud University. “From this, you may be tempted to conclude that employees and students tend to enjoy thinking hard. Our results suggest that this conclusion would be false: In general, people really dislike mental effort.”
Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 170 studies, published between 2019 and 2020 and comprising 4,670 participants, to examine how people generally experience mental effort. They did so by testing whether mental effort is associated with unpleasant feelings and whether that association depends on the task or the population involved.
The studies used a variety of participants (e.g., health care employees, military employees, amateur athletes, college students) from 29 countries and involved 358 different cognitive tasks (e.g., learning a new technology, finding one’s way around an unfamiliar environment, practicing golf swings, playing a virtual reality game). In all studies analyzed, participants reported the level of effort they exerted as well as the extent to which they experienced unpleasant feelings such as frustration, irritation, stress or annoyance.
Across all populations and tasks, the greater the mental effort, the greater the unpleasantness experienced by participants.
[https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037/bul0000443](https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037/bul0000443)
I don’t know for sure since I only have access to the abstract, but I feel like all of these activities would be pleasurable in certain environments and stressful and unpleasant in others. For the examples they gave:
“e.g., learning a new technology, finding one’s way around an unfamiliar environment, practicing golf swings, playing a virtual reality game”
Literally all of these would be fun on my own free time, and stressful and unpleasant if I had to do them as part of some scientific study such as this one. If I were doing these as part of my own will, putting more mental effort in would often be fun and challenging, but would just make me more stressed if I had to do them as part of one of these studies.