# Engaging Mental Effort: Process- and Person-Based Reward Experiences, Effort Reinforcement Intervention, and Cascading Effects on Challenging Tasks

> **NCT07557732** · NA · RECRUITING · sponsor: **University of California, Davis** · enrollment: 180 (estimated)

## Conditions studied

- Performance vs. Effort Rewards

## Interventions

- **BEHAVIORAL:** Performance Rewards
- **BEHAVIORAL:** Effort Rewards

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT07557732
- **Lead sponsor:** University of California, Davis
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** RECRUITING
- **Start date:** 2026-04-08
- **Primary completion:** 2028-09-01
- **Final completion:** 2028-09-01
- **Target enrollment:** 180 (ESTIMATED)
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-29

## Collaborators

- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07557732

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT07557732, "Engaging Mental Effort: Process- and Person-Based Reward Experiences, Effort Reinforcement Intervention, and Cascading Effects on Challenging Tasks". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-07-07 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT07557732. Licensed CC0.

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