Ed Surge – Rebecca Koenig
“Any physical or mental activity that doesn’t happen automatically requires some effort. What propels a person to apply that effort? That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation. Like Amitai Shenhav, assistant professor in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Sciences at Brown University. His research lab examines what makes a task mentally demanding and how and why people overcome that difficulty.” (more)