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Competition of internal and external information in an exercise setting.
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In this article, the authors examined when attention to external cues attenuates the perception of physical symptoms and fatigue during physical exercise and found that participants hearing distracting sounds reported less fatigue and fewer symptoms than subjects hearing an amplification of their own breathing.Abstract:
During physical exercise, individuals have access to internal sensory and external environmental cues that compete for attentional focus. Two experiments examined when attention to external cues attenuates the perception of physical symptoms and fatigue. In Experiment 1, subjects' physical performance was held constant during exercise on a treadmill. Subjects hearing distracting sounds reported less fatigue and fewer symptoms than subjects hearing an amplification of their own breathing. In Experiment 2, subjects jogging equal length cross-country and lap courses evinced faster times on the former, where increased external attention was necessary. Self-reports of symptoms and fatigue, however, were comparable on the two courses. The results are interpreted in terms of attentional focus shifting from one information source to another as needed, with attention to any one source diminishing attention to others.read more
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Health complaints, stress, and distress: exploring the central role of negative affectivity.
David Watson,James W. Pennebaker +1 more
TL;DR: Results demonstrate the importance of including different types of health measures in health psychology research, and indicate that self-report health measures reflect a pervasive mood disposition of negative affectivity (NA), which will act as a general nuisance factor in health research.
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Choking under pressure: Self-consciousness and paradoxical effects of incentives on skillful performance
TL;DR: A model for choking on coordination and skill tasks is proposed, holding that the pressure increases the conscious attention to the performer's own process of performance and that this increased conscious attention disrupts the automatic or overlearned nature of the execution.
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The relative efficacy of avoidant and nonavoidant coping strategies: a meta-analysis.
Jerry Suls,Barbara Fletcher +1 more
TL;DR: A series of meta-analyses found that both attention and avoidance facilitate adaptation as compared with no instruction controls, and the important role of interpretational set and whether one looks at the immediate or at the long-term effects of coping is suggested.
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Intraindividual and interindividual analyses of positive and negative affect: their relation to health complaints, perceived stress, and daily activities.
TL;DR: The most significant finding was that, contrary to prediction, health complaints were as strongly related to intraindividual fluctuations in PA as in NA.
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Emotional states and physical health.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore potential mechanisms linking pleasant feelings and good health, including direct effects of positive affect on physiology, especially the immune system, the information value of emotional experiences, the psychological resources engendered by positive feeling states, and the ways in which mood can motivate health-relevant behaviors, and elicitation of social support.
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Self-schemata and processing information about the self.
TL;DR: In this article, the role of schemata in processing information about the self is examined by linking self-schemata to a number of specific empirical referents, and the relationship of self-schemeata to cross-situational consistency in behavior is discussed.
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Public and private self-consciousness: Assessment and theory.
TL;DR: Buss and Scheier as mentioned in this paper constructed a scale to assess individual differences in self-consciou sness and found that self-consciousness has three components: public, private, and social anxiety.