How being uncomfortable when learning something new can be an advantage, writes abmarkman
to read several articles—some of which were about the COVID pandemic, and others were about more amusing topics. The instructions that discomfort is a sign of learning increased people’s ratings of motivation to want to read the articles about COVID compared to the control instructions, but it had no impact on ratings of motivation to read the amusing articles.
As a final example, in another study, participants were asked for their political party affiliation. Then, they were shown news articles that were consistent and inconsistent with their political beliefs and asked to rate their interest in reading the articles. Some participants were given instructions that feelingor uncomfortable about reading an article is a sign of learning, while other participants were just given a goal to learn new things.
These findings suggest that people typically avoid discomfort, but when discomfort is framed as a signal that valuable learning is taking place, then people may seek discomfort in some situations . It is important to note that the effects in these studies are reliable, but small. So, you can’t make people much more likely to look for opportunities to be uncomfortable in service of learning just by giving them brief instructions.
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