Testing whether reduced cognitive performance in burnout can be reversed by a motivational intervention

摘要: It has been suggested that the motivation to spend effort is decreased in burnout patients, resulting reduced cognitive performance. A question remains whether this can be reversed by motivational interventions. We investigated examining effect of a intervention on presented 40 patients The Netherlands and matched healthy controls with complex attention task. As expected, first block trials performance was poorer than controls. Subsequently, we provided participants fake positive feedback about their announced would financially reward those who performed best subsequent trials. Contrary controls, did not improve experienced more aversion effort. study demonstrated impaired could ...