Physiological activity and performance: A comparison of kindergarten children with young adults.

Elliott, Rogers

doi:10.1037/h0093868

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“…Positively/negatively incentivizing participants for good/bad performance is a standard manipulation of arousal in the motor performance literature (Neiss, 1988). For example, Elliot (1964) showed that, as compared to a control condition, monetary incentives in motor performance tasks increased electroencephalographic activity (EEG), electromyographic (EMG) activity, palmar conductance, and heart rate. Likewise, Eason and Branks (1963) showed higher EMG levels for participants who were rewarded with grade points for good performance on verbal and motor tasks.…”

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How prevalent is wishful thinking? Misattribution of arousal causes optimism and pessimism in subjective probabilities.

Vosgerau¹

2010

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

117

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People appear to be unrealistically optimistic about their future prospects, as reflected by theory and research in the fields of psychology, organizational behavior, behavioral economics, and behavioral finance. Many real-world examples (e.g., consumer behavior during economic recessions), however, suggest that people are not always overly optimistic. I suggest that people can be both overly optimistic and pessimistic in their beliefs about future events, depending on whether they focus on success or on failure. More specifically, people judge the likelihood of desirable and undesirable events to be higher than similar neutral events because they misattribute the arousal those events evoke to their greater perceived likelihood. I demonstrated this stake-likelihood effect in 4 studies. In Study 1, arousal was shown to increase likelihood judgments. Study 2 demonstrated that such elevated likelihood judgments are due to misattribution of the arousal from having a stake in the outcome. Study 3 demonstrated that such misattribution of arousal occurs for desirable and undesirable events. Study 4 showed the effects of optimism and pessimism on likelihood judgments in a field setting with soccer fans. Together, the findings suggest that wishful thinking might be less prevalent than previously believed. Pessimism might be as likely as optimism in subjective probabilities.

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Section: Misattribution Of Arousalmentioning

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How prevalent is wishful thinking? Misattribution of arousal causes optimism and pessimism in subjective probabilities.

Vosgerau¹

2010

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

117

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“…Physiological measures have the advantage of being objective and reliable. However, they can be expensive, and correlations between different indicators of physiological arousal are often low (Elliott, 1964;Lacey, 1967).…”

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Effects of Violent Versus Nonviolent Video Games on Children's Arousal, Aggressive Mood, and Positive Mood

Fleming

Wood

2001

J Applied Social Pyschol

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This study investigated the relationship between violent video games and children's mood. A total of 71 children aged 8 to 12 years played a paper-and-pencil game, a nonviolent video game, and a violent video game. Results indicate that arousal, as measured by heart rate and self-reported arousal, increased significantly after playing the violent video game, as compared with the other two game conditions, with girls reporting more arousal than did boys. There was no significant increase in aggressive mood scores for either boys or girls after playing the violent game. Positive mood, as measured by positive affect, showed no significant increases or decreases after playing either video game. However, positive mood, as measured by general mood, showed a significant increase after playing the violent game for both boys and girls, but only as compared with the paper-and-pencil game. Results are interpreted in terms of social learning and cognitive information processing theories of aggression.

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“…Both models, however, predict that larger decelerations in the foreperiod of a reaction time task will be associated with faster reaction time. In fact, larger decelerations do accompany faster reaction times (Coquery & Lacey, 1966;Elliott, 1964;Obrist, Webb, & Sutterer, 1969;.…”

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A developmental study of three components of attention.

Hover

Kathleen²

1974

Developmental Psychology

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Physiological activity and performance: A comparison of kindergarten children with young adults.

Cited by 56 publications

References 46 publications

How prevalent is wishful thinking? Misattribution of arousal causes optimism and pessimism in subjective probabilities.

How prevalent is wishful thinking? Misattribution of arousal causes optimism and pessimism in subjective probabilities.

Effects of Violent Versus Nonviolent Video Games on Children's Arousal, Aggressive Mood, and Positive Mood

A developmental study of three components of attention.

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