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Contributors with a strong mastery-avoidance goal participate in fewer heterogeneous tasks.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title>Contributors with different achievement goals participate in crowdsourcing tasks to different extents under the influence of the two motivators\/demotivators. The inclusion of the approach-avoidance dimension in the performance-mastery dichotomy enables demonstrating the influence of motivators\/demotivators more specifically. This article highlights differentiation between the quality and the quantity of heterogeneous crowdsourcing tasks.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Practical implications<\/jats:title>Management is advised to approach performance-approach people if a leaderboard and a point system are incorporated into their crowdsourcing platforms. Also, management should avoid offering heterogeneous tasks to mastery-avoidance contributors. 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