Incentive moderates the impact of implicit anger vs. sadness cues on effort-related cardiac response

Freydefont, Laure; Gendolla, Guido H.E.

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.04.002

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Title		Incentive moderates the impact of implicit anger vs. sadness cues on effort-related cardiac response
Authors		Freydefont, Laure Gendolla, Guido H.E.
Published in		Biological Psychology. 2012, vol. 91, no. 1, p. 120-127
Abstract		This experiment investigated the combined effect of implicit affect and monetary success incentive on effort-related cardiac response in a 2 (Affect Prime: anger vs. sadness) × 2 (Incentive: low vs. high) between-person design. Sixty-two participants were exposed to affect primes during an objectively difficult short-term memory task. As predicted, by our theorizing about affect primes' systematic impact on subjectively experienced task demand and corresponding effort mobilization, sadness primes led to a weak cardiac pre-ejection period (PEP) response when incentive was low (disengagement), but to a very strong PEP response when incentive was high (high effort). PEP responses were moderate in the angerprime conditions (low effort). HR responses largely corresponded to those of PEP. The results demonstrate for the first time that high incentive can compensate the effort mobilization deficit of individuals who process sadness primes during a difficult task.
Keywords		Cardiac response — Implicit affect — Anger — Sadness — Incentive — Effort
Identifiers		DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.04.002
Full text		Article (Published version) (480 Kb) - Limited access to UNIGE Other version: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0301051112000919
Structures		Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire des sciences affectives
Research groups		Affective sciences Geneva Motivation Lab
Project		FNS: SNF 100014-131760/1
Citation (ISO format)		FREYDEFONT, Laure, GENDOLLA, Guido H.E. Incentive moderates the impact of implicit anger vs. sadness cues on effort-related cardiac response. In: Biological Psychology, 2012, vol. 91, n° 1, p. 120-127. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.04.002 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:34109