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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 22.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2015 Jun;15(2):276–286. doi: 10.3758/s13415-014-0324-5

Figure 2. Distribution of participants’ intrinsic motivation to complete remote associates word problems (N = 43).

Figure 2

Each participant’s intrinsic motivation to complete word problems was quantified as the percentage of the total free-choice period spent on the problems. Participants exhibited a bimodal distribution of free-choice time. For categorical analyses, those who spent at least 50% of the free-choice period completing word problems were defined as intrinsically motivated (“High Intrinsic”), and those who spent less than 50% of the free-choice period completing puzzles were considered low in intrinsic motivation to complete word problems (“Low Intrinsic”).