Implicit theories: How to measure them in different contextsAbstract. Implicit theories are understood as naïve or lay theories about certain traits that form the basis for intuitive assessments and evaluations as ...
Informational mood impact and mental effort: Theory and findings on cardiovascular reactivityAbstract. The predictions of the mood-behavior-model (Gendolla, 2000) about mood effects on effort mobilization during mental demand are presented and the ...
Personal Value Placed on Academic Effort as a Mediator of Gender Differences in Grades: A Domain-Specific AnalysisAbstract. This study tested whether the better grades attained by girls can be explained by the higher value they place on working hard at ...
Effort and aspiration levels in tax compliance decisionsIs tax compliance influenced by the effort invested in earning one's income? Effort could increase value of income and, therefore, increase reluctance to pay taxes. On the other hand, the risk of ...
Abstract: Theoretical accounts of pain and empirical evidence indicate that pain and cognitive control share common neurocognitive processes. Numerous studies have examined the interactions between pain and cognitive performance when they ...
Abstract. The effort required to obtain certain rewards may influence the level of satisfaction with the following reward. Since people differ in beliefs about the availability of willpower resources required to pursue effortful actions, ...
Abstract. Based on the mood-behavior-model (MBM; Gendolla, 2000), it is proposed that moods play significant roles in two central processes of self-regulation: (1) The constitution of action preferences and (2) resource mobilization in instrumental ...
Is the effort invested to achieve taxable income a relevant factor for tax compliance? If the value of income increases with the effort exerted, reluctance to pay taxes should be high. On the other hand, if income is perceived as compensation for one’s ...
The present study investigates whether updating an important function of executive control can be driven by unconscious reward cues. Participants had to memorize several numbers and update those numbers independently according to a sequence of arithmetic ...
Abstract: Does working hard take the sting out of regret following failure or does working hard increase feelings of regret? The present research finds that neither of these views is correct. Rather, the results of both experiments found that regret was ...
Abstract. As originally formulated, Brehm’s theory of psychological reactance posited two manifestations of reactance, (1) an increased desire to exercise the threaten freedom, and (2) an increased tendency to exercise that freedom. The ...