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EDUCATION:
1977 B.A.,
Psychology - University of Texas at Austin RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research is
concerned broadly with the determinants and
cardiovascular consequences of effort. I have been
interested in cardiovascular response as an effort
outcome in large part because cardiovascular responses
are believed to be linked to risk for negative health
outcomes, including hypertension and heart disease. A
persistent focus has been on the manner in which
perceptions of ability, or self-efficacy, impact effort
and associated cardiovascular responses. This has
evolved recently into interests in (1) fatigue and
age-related cognitive decline as determinants of ability
perception, (2) sleep loss and obesity as determinants
of fatigue, and (3) self-regulatory (restraint, or
inhibitory) training as a determinant of the capacity to
self regulate. My research has been supported by various
granting agencies, most notably the National Science
Foundation. Visiting appointments have been supported by
the Fulbright Program, the German Academic Exchange
Service, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. I
have agreed to serve as Associate Editor for the journal
Motivation and Emotion beginning in fall of 2008. REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS: Brehm, J. W., Wright, R. A., Solomon, S., Silka, L., & Greenberg, J. (1983). Perceived difficulty, energization, and the magnitude of goal valence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 19, 21‑48. Wright, R. A. (1984). Motivation, anxiety, and the difficulty of avoidant control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID, 46, 1376‑1388. Wright, R. A., Contrada, R. J., & Patane, M. J. (1986). Task difficulty, cardiovascular response and the magnitude of goal valence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID, 51, 837‑843. Wright, R. A., & Brehm, J. W. (1989). Energization and goal attractiveness. In L. A. Pervin (Ed.), Goal concepts in personality and social psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Wright, R. A., Williams, B. J., & Dill, J. C. (1992). Interactive effects of difficulty and instrumentality of avoidant behavior on cardiovascular reactivity. Psychophysiology, 29, 677‑686. Wright, R. A., & Dill, J. C. (1993). Blood pressure reactivity and incentive appraisals as a function of perceived ability and objective task demand. Psychophysiology, 30, 152‑160. Wright, R. A., & Dismukes, A. (1995). Cardiovascular effects of experimentally‑induced efficacy (ability) appraisals at low and high levels of avoidant task demand. Psychophysiology, 32, 172-176. Wright, R. A., Tunstall, A. M., Williams, B. J., Goodwin, J. S., & Harmon‑Jones, E. (1995). Social evaluation and cardiovascular response: An active coping approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID, 69, 530-543. Wright, R. A. (1996). Brehm's theory of motivation as a model of effort and cardiovascular response. In P. M. Gollwitzer and J. A. Bargh (Eds.), The psychology of action: Linking cognition and motivation to behavior (pp. 424-453). New York: Guilford. Wright, R. A., Murray, J. B., Storey, P. & Williams, B. J. (1997). Ability analysis of gender relevance and sex differences in cardiovascular response to behavioral challenge. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID, 73, 405-417. Wright, R. A. (1998). Ability perception and cardiovascular response to behavioral challenge. In M. Kofta, G. Weary, & G. Sedek (Eds.), Control in action: Cognitive and motivational mechanisms (pp. 197-232). New York: Plenum. Wright, R. A. & Kirby, L. D. (2001). Effort determination of cardiovascular response: An integrative analysis with applications in social psychology. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (vol. 33, pp. 255-307). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Wright, R. A., & Penacerrada, D. (2002). Energy resource depletion, ability perception, and cardiovascular response to behavioral challenge. Psychophysiology, 39, 182-187. Wright, R. A., Killebrew, K., & Pimpalapure, D. (2002). Cardiovascular incentive effects where a challenge is unfixed: Further demonstrations involving social evaluation, evaluator status, and monetary reward. Psychophysiology, 39, 188-197. Wright, R. A., Martin, R. E., & Bland, J. L. (2003). Energy resource depletion, task difficulty, and cardiovascular response to a mental arithmetic challenge. Psychophysiology, 40, 98-105. Wright, R. A. & Kirby, L. D. (2003). Cardiovascular correlates of challenge and threat appraisals: A critical examination of the biopsychosocial arousal regulation analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 216-233. Wright, R. A., Greenberg, J., & Brehm, S. S. (2004). Motivational analyses of social behavior: Building on Jack Brehm's contributions to psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Gendolla, G. H. E., & Wright, R. A. (2005). Motivation in social settings: Studies of effort-related cardiovascular arousal. In J. P. Forgas, K. Williams, & B. von Hippel (Eds.), Social motivation: Conscious and nonconscious processes. Cambridge University Press. Wright, R. A., & Lockard, S. (2006). Sex, outcome expectancy, and cardiovascular response to a masculine appetitive challenge. Psychophysiology , 43, 190-196. Wright, R. A., Junious, T. R., Neal, C., Avello, A., Graham, C., Herrmann, L., Junious, S., & Walton, N. (2007). Mental fatigue influence on effort-related cardiovascular response: Difficulty effects and extension across cognitive performance domains. Motivation and Emotion, 31, 219-231.
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