APS

2026 APS Annual Convention · 2026

Attentional and Affective Mechanisms of Extrinsic Academic Motivation

Barcelona, Spain · May 2026

Posters · Emotion & Motivation: What Drives the Self

  • Samantha Rapacon
    Old Dominion University
  • Katie Heberlein
    Old Dominion University
  • AJ Aquino
    Old Dominion University
  • Xiao Yang
    Old Dominion University

Abstract

We investigated cognition-emotion integration in extrinsic academic motivation. Forty-one participants (Mage = 20; 30 females) were recruited to complete an emotional interference choice reaction time task. We found that extrinsic motivation influenced attention to negative stimuli and high levels of extrinsic motivation are associated with greater sensitivity to punishment.

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