How motivation affects cardiovascular response
Subtitle: mechanisms and applications
By: edited by Rex A. Wright and Guido H.E. Gendolla
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781433810275
Subjects: Pathophysiology; Heart; Motivation (Psychology); Physiology; Physiological aspects
Description: Cardiovascular (CV) response consists of changes in CV parameters such as heart rate, blood pressure, and heart contraction force in reaction to an event or set of events. It is significant for multiple reasons, perhaps most notably because research suggests that it affects the development and progression of heart disease. Disease models vary, but most assume that characteristically strong and prolonged CV responses confer health risk. Psychologists have long suspected linkages between motivational variables and CV response. However, formal study of the linkages was limited for many years. Motivationally based CV response research now flourishes, with researchers in various disciplines considering the role of relevant variables such as effort, incentives, and goals. This book conveys the amount and diversity of motivationally based CV response research that currently is being conducted. Chapters discuss mechanisms of motivational influence on CV response and apply motivational approaches to studying CV response in different life circumstances. Health implications are considered throughout. The volume will appeal to scholars and practitioners in numerous specialty areas, including motivation, emotion, psychophysiology, medical/health psychology, social/personality psychology and human factors/ergonomics. It will be a vital research source and could serve as a text or supplement in classes that address motivational, psychophysiological and health issues.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Integration of cardiac function with cognitive, motivational, and emotional processing : evidence from neuroimaging / Marcus A. Gray and Hugo D. Critchley; title: Beta-adrenergic cardiovascular reactivity and adaptation to stress : the cardiac pre-ejection period as an index of effort / Robert Kelsey; title: Psychophysiological processes of mental effort investment / S.H. Fairclough, L.M.J. Mulder; title: Cardiovascular response to reward / Michael Richter; title: Emotion, motivation, and cardiovascular response / Sylvia D. Kreibig; title: The emotional intensity theory and its cardiovascular implications for emotional states / Anca M. Miron, Jack W. Brehm; title: Gloomy and lazy? on the impact of mood and depressive symptoms on effort-related cardiovascular response / Guido H.E. Gendolla, Kerstin Brinkmann, Nicolas Silvestrini; title: Cardiovascular reactivity to stress : the role of motivational conflict / Justin Stanley, Richard J. Contrada; title: "Pause and plan" : self-regulation and the heart / Suzanne C. Segerstrom ... [et al.]; title: Multifaceted effects of fatigue on effort and associated cardiovascular responses / Rex A. Wright, Christopher C. Stewart, Jesse Brown; title: Cardiovascular psychophysiology and health / Stephan Bongard, Mustafa al-Absi, William R. Lovallo; title: The behavioural and health corollaries of blunted physiological reactions to acute psychological stress : revising the reactivity hypothesis / Douglas Carroll, Anna C. Phillips, William R. Lovallo; title: Agonistic striving, emotion regulation, and hypertension risk / Craig K. Ewart; title: Interpersonal motives and cardiovascular response : mechanisms linking dominance and social status with cardiovascular disease / Timothy W. Smith, Jenny M. Cundiff, Bert N. Uchino; title: Social influences on cardiovascular processes : a focus on health / Greg J. Norman ... [et al.]; title: Indeterminate motivations : cardiovascular health costs of living in a social world / Britta Larsen, Nicholas Christenfeld; title: Effort mechanisms linking sex (gender) to cardiovascular response : toward a comprehensive analysis with relevance for health / Rex A. Wright, Patricia Barreto; title: Cardiovascular measures in human factors/ergonomics research / Richard W. Backs, John Lenneman, Nicholas Cassavaugh; title: Clarifying achievement motives and effort : studies of cardiovascular response / Rémi L. Capa.