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The benefit of choice on task performance: Reduced difficulty effects in free-choice versus forced-choice tasks.

Mem Cognit · 2025 · PMC12141384 · PMID 39375299

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only marginally significantp = .046actually significant
The interaction was only marginally significant, but descriptively there was a larger letter difficulty effect under free-choice compared to forced-choice processing (5.6% vs. 3.4%), F (1, 57) = 4.88, p = .046, η p 2 = .15.

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