This article presents a quasi‐experiment (N= 79 university students) testing whether
individual differences in action‐state orientation moderate primed cognitive conflict's effects …

This experiment tested whether personal task choice can shield against implicit affective
influences on sympathetically mediated cardiovascular response, reflecting effort …

Since personal choice fosters commitment and shields action execution against potentially
conflicting influences, two laboratory experiments with university students (N= 228) tested …

This experiment investigated how the personal choice of task characteristics influences
resource mobilization assessed as effort-related cardiac response during a task of clearly …

Two experiments with N= 221 university students investigated the impact of primed cognitive
conflict on effort assessed as cardiac response in tasks that were not conflict‐related …

Cognitive function of human brain requires temporal execution of emotional or attentional
tasks, or their inter-dependence influences. Smooth execution of such tasks requires …

Implicitly processed pictures of facial expressions of emotions have been found to
systematically influence sympathetically mediated cardiovascular reactivity during task …

This experiment tested whether personal choice vs. external assignment of task
characteristics moderates the effect of incidental affective stimulation on effort-related …

Dysphoric individuals perceive mental tasks as more demanding and show increased
cardiovascular responses during the performance of easy cognitive tasks. Recent research …

In four experiments, we investigated the impact of outcomes and processing mode (free
versus forced) on subsequent voluntary task-switching behavior. Participants freely chose …