It doesn't really make sense to ask which is greater, since they're different kinds of things. At the very least, you'd need some sort of implicit wage rate to convert effort (whatever the hell that is) into monetary units and then you'd have to assume people are just as averse to suffering financial losses as they are whatever kind of losses you're talking about (which you'd have to come up with implicit prices for).

All that said, there are lots of econ experiments looking into both of these things and these sorts of "irrational" preferences tend to be highly sensitive to experiment design.

Undisciplined

Prospect theory, loss aversion is twice as powerful

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justin_shocknet

One reason I see 'manually doing hard things has value' as more confirming is 

One reason I see 'you don't have to manually do hard things' as more confirming is 

I wonder if there's an experiment design that could measure which is greater.

AskSN

the_stacker_muse

Which belief creates a more powerful confirmation bias?

k00b

One reason I see 'manually doing hard things has value' as more confirming is [loss aversion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion).

One reason I see 'you don't have to manually do hard things' as more confirming is [effort aversion](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268113001534).

I wonder if there's an experiment design that could measure which is greater.