Vikram Chib
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So if I boost up that reward a little bit, right, it might motivate me more to overcome some of that feeling of fatigue and do the task that I'm set out to do.
Yeah, that's right.
So like you would think about like a speed skater, right?
You see these people getting their Olympic records or gold medals, right?
You know, they've for four years, they do their World Cup events, you know, and they do OK.
Sometimes they they they break world records.
But you see a lot of Olympic and world records broken in in the Olympics.
And so what one one way to think about that?
I mean, this is just speculative.
Could could be that like, OK, that added that little added reward pushes them beyond, you
Well, we've sort of looked at that in terms of the heightened reward aspect of it as opposed to the fatigue aspect of it.
So what we've done is we've kind of set up these like choking scenarios in the lab where we use incentive.
And the incentive we've used is money.
So we pay people like a lot of money.
We tell them, okay, you're going to do a single trial like of a skilled motor task.
essentially playing a video game.
And on certain trials, we're going to give you $100 to do this trial.