New research identifies the complex relationship between effort and perceived value. While future effort decreases item appeal, past effort can increase it. Individual responses vary, with some ...

Inzlicht and his colleagues posed the Effort Paradox to make sense of this odd tendency: Sometimes we value experiences and ...

The Kopernik Observatory and Science Center will discuss a mathematical ‘paradox’ involving sums of numbers. Finally, it will discover a familiar irrational number using a less common technique.

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The findings, published in Nature, solve the paradox of how the immune system ... scientists have known that B cell evolution is unusual. Mathematical modeling from that era suggested that ...

Researchers probed what psychologists call the ‘paradox of effort’ to learn how different people value work they could do in ...

Effort and exploration activate reward cycles in our brains. We must ensure we have opportunities for both.

The reasoning Claude presents to users doesn’t always reflect how the AI actually arrived at its answers. Anthropic studied ...