People underestimate their capability to motivate themselves without performance-based extrinsic incentives.

Motiv Emot · 2023 · PMC10328886 · PMID 37427079

Europe PMC DOI

hedged sentence

—

closest p

—

boldest claim

The sentences

only marginally significantno p-value reported

The results also seem to suggest that the tendency reduces when reward is promised for participants, but the results were not very clear (e.g., only marginally significant interaction for task engagement).

also in 5,076 other papers

Quoted from the open-access full text in Europe PMC under the licence the publisher applied. The sentence is reproduced exactly as published; the emphasis is ours.