PSY 447LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Music While You Work, Pessimism
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Group music performance causes elevated pain thresholds and social bonding in small and large groups of singers. Results: reported greater feelings of connectedness, positive affect, self-other overlap when singing with larger choir, pain thresholds increased only when singing with small choir. Music while you work: the differential distraction of background music on the cognitive test performance of introverts and extraverts. The study: the distracting effects of pop music on introverts and extraverts performance on various cognitive tasks. This study examines to see the effect of transforming the feeling of anxiety to excitement: both anxiety and excitement are arousal congruent, do more effective to reappraise than to reduce arousal (calm) Pilot study: in response to what is the best advice? what the focal actor the was self, 90. 97% of participants choose try to relax and calm down, 1. 29% of participants chose.
