Noise annoys—But personal choice can attenuate noise effects on cardiac response reflecting effort

JR Falk, PM Gollwitzer, G Oettingen… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Since personal choice fosters commitment and shields action execution against potentially
conflicting influences, two laboratory experiments with university students (N= 228) tested …

Depressive symptoms, task choice, and effort: The moderating effect of personal control on cardiac response

JR Falk, PM Gollwitzer, G Oettingen… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Dysphoric individuals perceive mental tasks as more demanding and show increased
cardiovascular responses during the performance of easy cognitive tasks. Recent research …

Cognitive conflict does not always mean high effort: Task difficulty's moderating effect on cardiac response

YS Bouzidi, GHE Gendolla - Psychophysiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents an experiment (N= 127 university students) testing whether the
previously found impact of conflict primes on effort‐related cardiac response is moderated …