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Task choice shields against incidental affective influences on effort‐related cardiovascular response

In an attempt to integrate theorizing on action shielding with affective influences on effort‐related cardiovascular response, an experiment with N = 115 university students (90% women) tested whether working on a task by personal choice versus external assignment moderates the effect of happy versu...

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Autores principales: Falk, Johanna R., Gollwitzer, Peter M., Oettingen, Gabriele, Gendolla, Guido H. E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9286425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35166391
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14022
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author Falk, Johanna R.
Gollwitzer, Peter M.
Oettingen, Gabriele
Gendolla, Guido H. E.
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description In an attempt to integrate theorizing on action shielding with affective influences on effort‐related cardiovascular response, an experiment with N = 115 university students (90% women) tested whether working on a task by personal choice versus external assignment moderates the effect of happy versus sad background music on effort‐related cardiovascular response during task performance. We predicted strong action shielding and low receptivity for incidental affective influences when participants could ostensibly choose the task to be performed. Given the difficult nature of the task, we thus expected strong effort‐related cardiovascular responses due to high commitment when the task was chosen. By contrast, for assigned‐task participants, we expected high receptivity for incidental affective influences and thus predicted strong cardiovascular reactivity when they were exposed to happy music but low responses due to disengagement when they were exposed to sad music. Effects on responses of cardiac pre‐ejection period, systolic blood pressure, and heart rate confirmed our effort‐related predictions. Apparently, personal choice of a task can immunize individuals against incidental affective influences on resource mobilization.
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spelling pubmed-92864252022-07-19 Task choice shields against incidental affective influences on effort‐related cardiovascular response Falk, Johanna R. Gollwitzer, Peter M. Oettingen, Gabriele Gendolla, Guido H. E. Psychophysiology Original Articles In an attempt to integrate theorizing on action shielding with affective influences on effort‐related cardiovascular response, an experiment with N = 115 university students (90% women) tested whether working on a task by personal choice versus external assignment moderates the effect of happy versus sad background music on effort‐related cardiovascular response during task performance. We predicted strong action shielding and low receptivity for incidental affective influences when participants could ostensibly choose the task to be performed. Given the difficult nature of the task, we thus expected strong effort‐related cardiovascular responses due to high commitment when the task was chosen. By contrast, for assigned‐task participants, we expected high receptivity for incidental affective influences and thus predicted strong cardiovascular reactivity when they were exposed to happy music but low responses due to disengagement when they were exposed to sad music. Effects on responses of cardiac pre‐ejection period, systolic blood pressure, and heart rate confirmed our effort‐related predictions. Apparently, personal choice of a task can immunize individuals against incidental affective influences on resource mobilization. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-02-15 2022-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9286425/ /pubmed/35166391 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14022 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Psychophysiology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Psychophysiological Research. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Task choice shields against incidental affective influences on effort‐related cardiovascular response
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title_short Task choice shields against incidental affective influences on effort‐related cardiovascular response
title_sort task choice shields against incidental affective influences on effort‐related cardiovascular response
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9286425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35166391
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14022
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