PMID- 38218320
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20240205
LR  - 20240206
IS  - 1872-7972 (Electronic)
IS  - 0304-3940 (Linking)
VI  - 822
DP  - 2024 Feb 6
TI  - Is providing choices always a good thing? the backfire effect of providing 
      choices on competence restoration.
PG  - 137632
LID - S0304-3940(24)00009-0 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.neulet.2024.137632 [doi]
AB  - Grounded in self-determination theory (SDT), the purpose of this research is to 
      investigate the influence of providing choices following competence frustration 
      on one's intrinsic motivation in a follow-up task. Study 1 conducted a 
      between-group EEG experiment with 50 participants and used a component of 
      event-related potentials (ERPs) to represent intrinsic motivation. Study 2 was a 
      behavioural experiment with 149 participants, adopting the self-report method to 
      measure intrinsic motivation. The stimuli and procedure in Study 1 are identical 
      to Study 2. All participants were asked to complete a high-difficult 
      time-estimation (TE) task during sessions 1-2, and a moderate-difficult stopwatch 
      (SW) task during session 3 (no choices in the control group vs. providing choices 
      in the experimental group). In Study 1, we observed a smaller reward positivity 
      (RewP) difference wave in the experimental (vs. control) group during session 3. 
      In Study 2, participants' intrinsic motivation in the experimental (vs. control) 
      group is significantly lower. The results suggest that providing choices impairs 
      the competence-frustrated participants' intrinsic motivation in the follow-up 
      task and hinders competence restoration. Thus, the current research contributes 
      original neuroscientific and subjective evidences for the adverse influence of 
      providing choices on the competence-frustrated individual's intrinsic motivation, 
      and suggests important practical implications.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2024. Published by Elsevier B.V.
FAU - He, Yue
AU  - He Y
AD  - School of Management, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China; 
      Laboratory of Neuromanagement and Decision Neuroscience, Guangdong University of 
      Technology, Guangzhou, China.
FAU - Mo, Zan
AU  - Mo Z
AD  - School of Management, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China; 
      Laboratory of Neuromanagement and Decision Neuroscience, Guangdong University of 
      Technology, Guangzhou, China.
FAU - Fang, Hui
AU  - Fang H
AD  - Laboratory of Neuromanagement and Decision Neuroscience, Guangdong University of 
      Technology, Guangzhou, China; School of Business Administration, Guangdong 
      University of Finance, Guangzhou, China. Electronic address: fanghui@gdut.edu.cn.
FAU - Li, Mengyin
AU  - Li M
AD  - School of Management, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China; 
      Laboratory of Neuromanagement and Decision Neuroscience, Guangdong University of 
      Technology, Guangzhou, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20240112
PL  - Ireland
TA  - Neurosci Lett
JT  - Neuroscience letters
JID - 7600130
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Evoked Potentials
MH  - *Motivation
MH  - Reward
MH  - Self Report
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Choices
OT  - Competence frustration
OT  - Event-related potentials (ERPs)
OT  - Intrinsic motivation
OT  - Reward positivity (RewP)
OT  - Self-determination theory
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2024/01/14 12:42
MHDA- 2024/02/05 06:42
CRDT- 2024/01/13 19:30
PHST- 2023/11/08 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2024/01/08 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2024/01/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/02/05 06:42 [medline]
PHST- 2024/01/14 12:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2024/01/13 19:30 [entrez]
AID - S0304-3940(24)00009-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.neulet.2024.137632 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Neurosci Lett. 2024 Feb 6;822:137632. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2024.137632. Epub 
      2024 Jan 12.