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TL;DR: In this article, two hypotheses derived from dissonance theory were tested: (a) when a person is paid by the hour, his productivity will be greater when he perceives his pay as inequitably large than when identical pay is perceived as being equitable; and (b) when the same person was paid on a piecework basis, their productivity would be less than when he perceived his pay is inequitable large.
Abstract: 2 hypotheses derived from dissonance theory were tested: (a) when a person is paid by the hour his productivity will be greater when he perceives his pay as inequitably large than when identical pay is perceived as equitable, and (b) when a person is paid on a piecework basis his productivity will be less when he perceives his pay is inequitably large than when he perceives identical pay as being equitable. The first hypothesis was sustained (p < .05) in a laboratory experiment in which 11 male college Ss earned $3.50 per hour and were induced to feel overpaid and 11 control Ss earned $3.50 per hour and were induced to feel fairly paid. The second hypothesis was sustained (p < .01) in a factorial design study in which 36 Ss were paid either $3.50 per hour or 30 cents per piece, and felt either equitably pair or inequitably overpaid. In both studies an identical task, in which Ss interviewed the general public, was used.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the ability of human operators to predict the future position of a moving target after the target disappeared and found that human operators can make motion predictions equally well with minimal as with maximal exposure to target input; only target speed exerts an influence on prediction accuracy.
Abstract: This study investigated ihe ability of Ss to predict the future position of a moving target after the target disappeared. Target speed, duration of target exposure, and S's mode of responding to the visible target were varied. The performance measure was the absolute deviation from the correct target position at the end of 9 sec, converted to error relative to target speed. Results show: (a) no significant differences resulting from mode of response (tracking vs. monitoring), order of presentation, duration of presentation, or speed-duration interaction; (b) significant learning effect from session to session (p < .01); and (c) an increase in relative error, in an inverse relation to target speed (p < .01). It is concluded that a human operator may be able to make motion predictions equally as well with minimal as with maximal exposure to target input; only target speed exerts an influence on prediction accuracy.
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