Is Mental Effort Exertion Contagious? A Replication Study.

J Cogn · 2025 · PMC12315684 · PMID 40756105

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While in the Easy condition there was a congruency effect with faster congruent ( M = 333 ms) than incongruent trials ( M = 359 ms), t (89) = 6.33, p < .001, Cohen’s d = 0.40 (95% CI [0.27, 0.53]), this congruency effect was only marginally significant in the Difficult condition, M = 338 ms vs.

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