APS
2025 APS Annual Convention
Effort Intensity: Three Decades of Research
Joining researchers from three countries, this symposium presents an integrative overview of key findings from highly systematic effort research programs grounded in the principles of motivational intensity theory. Using physiological measures, studies have generated important insights about how different psychological variables influence people’s vigor in performing tasks.
Chairs & Discussants
- Guido GendollaChair
University of Geneva - Guido GendollaChair
University of Geneva
Presentations
- Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Mechanisms Underlying Mental EffortMichael Richter
- Ability Perception Influence on Effort and Associated Cardiovascular Responses: Thirty Years of Thought and InvestigationRex Wright
- Affective Influences on Effort-Related Cardiovascular Response: Processes and LimitsGuido Gendolla
- Are We All Trying Equally Hard? an Individual Differences Perspective on Motivational Intensity TheoryKerstin Brinkmann
