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In demonstrating this relationship, we also provide evidence that attention-to-reward as measured in the lab, an automatic and implicit bias in information processing, is related to overt behaviors and motivations in everyday life as assessed via the questionnaire. Scores on the questionnaire correlate with other measures known to be related to attention-to-reward and predict performance on multiple laboratory tasks measuring the construct. In the present study, we introduce a questionnaire designed to provide a brief and accessible means of assessing attention-to-reward. Currently, the ability to measure and quantify attention-to-reward is restricted to the use of psychophysical laboratory tasks, which limits research into the construct in a variety of ways. This influence of reward on attention varies substantially across individuals, being related to a variety of personality variables and clinical conditions. Reward history is a powerful determinant of what we pay attention to.
