title: Effort aversiveness may be functional, but does it reflect opportunity cost?
abstract: Though the aversiveness of effort may indeed serve in selecting tasks for executive attention, the notion that it reflects opportunity costs is questionable: The potency of distractions in real-life situations is not regularly related with the potential benefit from attending to them.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa, 31905, Israel. dnavon@psy.haifa.ac.il.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Navon
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D005222:Mental Fatigue / Q000523:psychology*; D008960:Models, Psychological