Feedback Spillover Effect on Competitiveness Across Unrelated Tasks

What is it about?

To explore the influence of feedback effects across tasks, we ran a laboratory experiment where participants completed two unrelated computerized tasks, one after the other. In each task, participants were paid a fixed rate per correct answer (piece rate). After the first task, one group were given feedback on how they did in the first task in relation to their peers while the other group were not told anything about their relative performance. We found that participants, who received positive feedback in the first task, had higher participants who received positive feedback in the first task chose to compete more often in the second task.

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