Performances on emotion recognition tasks were better when women had lower progesterone levels.
People performing stressful tasks do better when there's a dog around, too, and studies show dogs ease tension both at the office and between married couples.
Similarly, experiments on visual laterality show that lateralized processing is sufficient in simple tasks, but more complex tasks are solved better when both hemispheres contribute [67] [68].
Here's where things get interesting: those students assigned to the boring task performed far better when asked to come up with additional uses for everyday items to which they had already been exposed.
Finally, all subjects were given another round of creative tests, including the unusual-use tasks they had worked on only a few minutes before.^2^ Here's where things get interesting: those students assigned to the boring task performed far better when asked to come up with additional uses for everyday items to which they had already been exposed.
Finally, all subjects were given another round of creative tests, including the unusual-use tasks they had worked on only a few minutes before.2 Here's where things get interesting: those students assigned to the boring task performed far better when asked to come up with additional uses for everyday items to which they had already been exposed.
A recent study by Kraft et al. [35] shows that in a peripheral discrimination task, performance is always better when the stimuli are presented across hemifields than within.
The study showed that neither measure on its own was useful for the task but did work better, when they were used together.
She said that finance teams learn better when "doing" a task rather than reading about it or watching a demonstration.
Incentives also relates to other aspects of task design, for example, some studies show that incentives work better when they are placed in the focal position in task worker interface [69], and task fidelity is improved when financial incentives are combined with a task design that asks workers to think about the output provided by other workers for the same task [70].
