Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface
 
Introduction
Rex A. Wright and Guido H. E. Gendolla
 
I. Mechanisms

A. Neural Integration and Direct Effects of Effort
1. Integration of Cardiac Function With Cognitive, Motivational, and Emotional Processing: Evidence From Neuroimaging
Marcus A. Gray and Hugo D. Critchley
2. Beta-Adrenergic Cardiovascular Reactivity and Adaptation to Stress: The Cardiac Pre-Ejection Period as an Index of Effort
Robert M. Kelsey
3. Psychophysiological Processes of Mental Effort Investment
Stephen H. Fairclough and L. J. M. Mulder

Reward Influence and Response Specificity
4. Cardiovascular Response to Reward
Michael Richter
5. Emotion, Motivation, and Cardiovascular Response
Sylvia D. Kreibig

Affect and Stressful Conflict
6. Emotional Intensity Theory and Its Cardiovascular Implications for Emotional States
Anca M. Miron and Jack W. Brehm
7. Gloomy and Lazy? On the Impact of Mood and Depressive Symptoms on Effort-Related Cardiovascular Response
Guido H. E. Gendolla, Kerstin Brinkmann, and Nicolas Silvestrini
8. Cardiovascular Reactivity to Stress: The Role of Motivational Conflict
Justin E. Stanley and Richard J. Contrada

Fatigue
9. Pause and Plan: Self-Regulation and the Heart
Suzanne C. Segerstrom, Jaime K. Hardy, Daniel R. Evans, and Natalie F. Winters
10. Multifaceted Effects of Fatigue on Effort and Associated Cardiovascular Responses
Rex A. Wright and Christopher C. Stewart

II. Applications

A. Health and Cardiovascular Response
11. Cardiovascular Reactivity and Health
Stephan Bongard, Mustafa al'Absi, and William R. Lovallo
12. The Behavioral and Health Corollaries of Blunted Physiological Reactions to Acute Psychological Stress: Revising the Reactivity Hypothesis
Douglas Carroll, Anna C. Phillips, and William R. Lovallo

Social Striving and Sex (Gender) Influence
13. Agonistic Striving, Emotion Regulation, and Hypertension Risk
Craig K. Ewart
14. Interpersonal Motives and Cardiovascular Response: Mechanisms Linking Dominance and Social Status With Cardiovascular Disease
Timothy W. Smith, Jenny M. Cundiff, and Bert N. Uchino
15. Social Influences on Cardiovascular Processes: A Focus on Health
Greg J. Norman, A. Courtney DeVries, Louise Hawkley, John T. Cacioppo, and Gary G. Berntson
16. Indeterminate Motivations: Cardiovascular Health Costs of Living in a Social World
Britta A. Larsen and Nicholas J. S. Christenfeld
17. Effort Mechanisms Linking Sex to Cardiovascular Response: Toward a Comprehensive Analysis With Relevance for Health
Rex A. Wright and Patricia Barreto

Work and Achievement
18. Cardiovascular Measures in Human Factors/Ergonomics Research
Richard W. Backs, John Lenneman, and Nicholas Cassavaugh
19. Clarifying Achievement Motives and Effort: Studies of Cardiovascular Response
Rémi L. Capa

Index
 
About the Editors
 

About the Author

Rex A. Wright, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his BA at the University of Texas in Austin and his PhD at the University of Kansas, and he did his postdoctoral training at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
 
Dr. Wright's research is concerned chiefly with determinants and cardiovascular consequences of effort. He has authored numerous publications, including research articles, book chapters, and books. He also has held numerous visiting academic appointments, including ones at the Max Planck Institute (Germany), the University of Bielefeld (Germany), the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (Germany), the University of Geneva (Switzerland), the University of Maryland at College Park, the University of Missouri at Columbia, and the University of Texas at Austin.
 
Dr. Wright's visits have been supported in part by the Fulbright Program, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. His research has been supported by various granting agencies, most notably the National Science Foundation.
 
Dr. Wright currently serves as an associate editor for the journal Motivation and Emotion.
 
Guido H. E. Gendolla, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), where he holds the chair for motivation psychology and directs the Geneva Motivation Lab. He earned his diploma (corresponding to the MA) and his PhD in psychology at the University of Bielefeld (Germany). He earned his habilitation in psychology at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (Germany).
 
Dr. Gendolla's research focuses on human motivation and affective states and is mainly concerned with psychophysiological processes. He has authored numerous publications, and his research has been supported by various grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Swiss National Funds.