The power of personal control: Task choice attenuates the effect of implicit sadness on sympathetically mediated cardiac response.

Autor:	Framorando D; Geneva Motivation Lab, FPSE, Section of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland., Falk JR; Geneva Motivation Lab, FPSE, Section of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland., Gollwitzer PM; Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, USA., Oettingen G; Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, USA., Gendolla GHE; Geneva Motivation Lab, FPSE, Section of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Psychophysiology [Psychophysiology] 2024 Mar; Vol. 61 (3), pp. e14495. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 09.
DOI:	10.1111/psyp.14495
Abstrakt:	Implicitly processed pictures of facial expressions of emotions have been found to systematically influence sympathetically mediated cardiovascular reactivity during task performance. According to the Implicit-Affect-Primes-Effort model, this happens because different affect primes activate the concepts of performance ease versus performance difficulty. Grounded in a recent action shielding model, our laboratory experiment (N = 129 university students) tested whether engaging in action by personal choice can immunize against those implicit affective influences on effort. Participants worked on an objectively difficult cognitive task, which was either externally assigned or ostensibly personally chosen. As predicted, participants in the assigned task condition showed weaker cardiac pre-ejection period reactivity during task performance, reflecting disengagement, when they were primed with sadness than when they were exposed to anger primes. Most relevant, this affect prime effect disappeared when participants could ostensibly choose their task themselves. These findings replicate previous research on implicit affect's impact on sympathetically mediated cardiac response and extend the literature on action shielding by personal choice effects to implicit affective influences on action execution. (© 2023 Society for Psychophysiological Research.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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