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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. 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjdoBliiRg0&feature=channel_page
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. (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. 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: Cambridge University Press. Nolte, R. N., Wright, R. A., Turner, C., & Contrada, R. J. (2008). Reported fatigue, difficulty, and cardiovascular response to a memory challenge. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 69, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/ijpsycho.2008.02.004. Wright, R. A. (2008). Refining the prediction of effort: Brehm’s distinction between potential motivation and motivation intensity. Social and Personality Psychology Compass: Motivation and Emotion, 2, 682-701. Wright, R. A., Stewart, C. C., & Barnett, B. R. (2008). Mental fatigue influence on effort-related cardiovascular response: Extension across the regulatory (inhibitory)/non-regulatory performance dimension. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 69, 127-133. doi: 10.1016/ijpsycho.2008.04.002. Wright, R. A. (2009). Drained: Studies of fatigue influence on engagement and associated cardiovascular responses. In L. Sher (Ed.), Psychological factors and cardiovascular disorders: The role of stress and psychosocial influences (pp. 195-212). New York: Nova Science Publishers. Stewart, C. C., Wright, R. A., Hui, S. A., & Simmons, A. (2009). Outcome expectancy as a moderator of mental fatigue influence on cardiovascular response. Psychophysiology, 46, 1141-1149, DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00862.x. Hui, S. A., Wright, R. A., Stewart, C. C., Simmons, A., Eaton, B. & Nolte, R. N. (2009). Performance, cardiovascular, and health behavior effects of an inhibitory strength training intervention. Motivation and Emotion, DOI 10.1007/s11031-009-9146-0, in press.
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