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The Effect of Leaderboards and Expectations on Deeper Level Cognitive Engagement

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A core component of leadership is being able to motivate and influence people to perform at the highest levels they are capable of. Being able to perform well in most industries requires people to put effort into their work, bypass surface level impulses, and engage deeper levels of cognitive processes…

A core component of leadership is being able to motivate and influence people to perform at the highest levels they are capable of. Being able to perform well in most industries requires people to put effort into their work, bypass surface level impulses, and engage deeper levels of cognitive processes when making decisions. This study looked at two treatments, an expectation and a social incentive, and its effects on cognitive reflection test (CRT) scores and time taken to complete this test. Although it appeared that receiving a leaderboard and expectation treatment improved cognitive reflection test score, these results were not statistically significant. It appeared that a leaderboard and expectation treatment increased time put into taking the test after removing certain data, but these results were also not statistically significant. After some transformation of the data, there may be an effect that leaderboards have on deeper level cognitive engagement if time and effort put into the test is controlled for properly, but this will have to be observed further in future studies.
ContributorsHrabovsky, John (Author) / Gray, Rob (Thesis advisor) / Becker, Vaughn (Committee member) / Craig, Scotty (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022

Certainty, Severity, and Low Latency Deception

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There has been an ongoing debate between the relative deterrent power of certainty and severity on deceptive and criminal activity, certainty being the likelihood of capture and severity being the magnitude of the potential punishment. This paper is a review of the current body of research regarding risk assessment and…

There has been an ongoing debate between the relative deterrent power of certainty and severity on deceptive and criminal activity, certainty being the likelihood of capture and severity being the magnitude of the potential punishment. This paper is a review of the current body of research regarding risk assessment and deception in games, specifically regarding certainty and severity. The topics of game theoretical foundations, balance, and design were covered, as were heuristics and individual differences in deceptive behavior. Using this background knowledge, this study implemented a methodology through which the risk assessments of certainty and severity can be compared behaviorally in a repeated conflict context. It was found that certainty had a significant effect on a person’s likelihood to lie, while severity did not. Exploratory data was collected using the dark triad personality quiz, though it did not ultimately show a pattern.
ContributorsDay, Nicholas C (Author) / Chiou, Erin (Thesis advisor) / Cooke, Nancy J. (Committee member) / Becker, Vaughn (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2019