The effects of achievement motivation, task difficulty, and goal difficulty on physiological, behavioral, and subjective effort

Psychophysiology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 859-868

  Capa, Rémi L ^a   Audiffren, Michel ^a   Ragot, Stéphanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Achievement motivation; Cardiovascular reactivity; Effort; Facial EMG reactivity; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FACE; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMPHREYS AND REVELLE MODEL OF EFFORT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MODEL; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 49649107229     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00675.x     Document Type: Article

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