Make it too difficult, and I'll give up; let me succeed, and I'll excel: The interaction between assigned and personal goals
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DOI: 10.1002/mde.3151
Abstract: We examine the motivational effects of setting both assigned and personal nonbinding goals on a real effort laboratory experiment. In order to derive conjectures for our experiment, we develop a model with goal-dependent preferences. In… read more here.
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Microbes make difficult decisions
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DOI: 10.1126/science.357.6355.1011-l
Abstract: Antimicrobials Clostridium difficile infects hundreds of thousands of people each year and is becoming increasingly tough to treat. Kirk et al. studied a C. difficile –specific antimicrobial derived from a genetically modified bacteriocin. They isolated… read more here.
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