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Time Pressure Undermines Performance More Under Avoidance Than Approach Motivation

Overview of attention for article published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, April 2013
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Title
Time Pressure Undermines Performance More Under Avoidance Than Approach Motivation
Published in
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, April 2013
DOI 10.1177/0146167213482984
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Marieke Roskes, Andrew J. Elliot, Bernard A. Nijstad, Carsten K. W. De Dreu

Abstract

Four experiments were designed to test the hypothesis that performance is particularly undermined by time pressure when people are avoidance motivated. The results supported this hypothesis across three different types of tasks, including those well suited and those ill suited to the type of information processing evoked by avoidance motivation. We did not find evidence that stress-related emotions were responsible for the observed effect. Avoidance motivation is certainly necessary and valuable in the self-regulation of everyday behavior. However, our results suggest that given its nature and implications, it seems best that avoidance motivation is avoided in situations that involve (time) pressure.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 168 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 48 28%
Student > Master 27 16%
Student > Bachelor 21 12%
Researcher 16 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 8%
Other 22 13%
Unknown 26 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 76 44%
Business, Management and Accounting 25 14%
Social Sciences 13 7%
Computer Science 4 2%
Design 3 2%
Other 18 10%
Unknown 35 20%
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#6,389,976
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#1,770
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#27
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