Sam Glucksberg - On Motivation

Sam Glucksberg, a professor emeritus from Princeton University, discusses his research on motivation in tasks. He explains that high motivation improves performance in easy tasks but hinders it in difficult ones. The candle experiment by Karl Duncker is used to illustrate how motivation affects problem-solving, showing that people struggle to see alternative uses for objects when highly motivated.

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