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No rest for the weary: Pay uncertainty reduces engagement in recovery.

Brice Corgnet¹; Roberto Hernán-González²; Gordon M. Sayre^2,3; Simon Gächter⁴

¹ Quantitative BioSciences · ² Université de Bourgogne · ³ École de management de Lyon · ⁴ University of Nottingham

= 1,476), finding support for our predictions. Participants facing greater pay uncertainty work longer and delay recovery, even when financial rewards for continuing to work become negligible in Studies 1, 2, and 3. In line with scarcity theory predictions, pay uncertainty increases perceptions of financial scarcity (Study 4a) and those facing financial scarcity are less likely to engage in recovery (Study 4b). Together, these results highlight the costs of pay uncertainty while identifying the psychological mechanism underlying that cost. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

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10.1037/apl0001335

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