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A female undergraduate, highly trained and practiced in hypnotic techniques, served as the S in a one-choice reaction-time task carried out under three different incentive conditions. Upon viewing her score in milliseconds after each trial, she referred to a chart converting raw scores to an 11-point scale ranging from +5 to −5. In the monetary condition, each point was worth 5 cents; in the posthypnotically cued affective condition, each point represented a degree of pleasure or anxiety; and in the intrinsic incentive condition, the points had no additional value. Comparisons of the obtained distributions of responses showed no significant differences among the conditions.
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This project was supported by NIMH Grant MH 16970-01 (G. S. Blum, Principal Investigator).
We gratefully wish to acknowledge the contributions of the following: Robert Gottsdanker for helpful suggestions and the use of his laboratory facilities; Jed Graef for aid in the statistical analysis; and Stephen Slater for assistance in the data collection.
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Blum, G.S., Wohl, B.M. Monetary, affective, and intrinsic incentives in choice reaction time. Psychon Sci 22, 69–70 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332498
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