Bridging the Gap Between Emotion and Cognition: An Overview

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Abstract

Why do some people struggle to find the words during a public presentation, though the speech was flowing while rehearsing? Why do musicians who practice their instrument flawlessly all day long still experience stage fright and make mistakes when giving a concert? Why do students, who studied extremely hard for their final examination, get very anxious when taking the test and just cannot structure their thoughts? How can it happen that James Lebron, one of the best NBA players, regularly misses crucial free throws during competitions, though this is a closed skill that one can extensively train? When there is something at stake, the pressure to perform comes immediately into play. Pressure represents " any factor or combination of factors that increases the importance of performing well on a particular occasion " (Baumeister, 1984, p. 610). Pressure usually triggers stress (e.g., Laborde, Raab, & Kinrade, 2014) and emotions, in particular anxiety (e.g., Laborde, Lautenbach, Allen, Herbert, & Achtzehn, 2014). Hence, pressure has the potential to influence cognitive processes , for example, evidenced in a recent special issue on emotion and decision-making (Laborde, Dosseville, & Raab, 2013). Complementary to this account, neuroscientists made clear that cognition and emotion are embedded (Damasio, 1994), in the sense that effective cognition can only happen with a working functional connection to emotions, which ultimately motivates the investigation of the emotion–cognition dyad in Section E. This introductory chapter to Section E provides the reader with the basics to understand the relevant theories attempting to bridge the gap between emotion and cognition in performance contexts. In it, we will point out the current challenges of the field and offer a critical view on the theories. Finally, we will show how theory development and the pertinent combination of different research methods can help both basic research and the applied field with the development of specific interventions.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelPerformance Psychology
Herausgeber*innenMarkus Raab, Babett Lobinger, Sven Hoffmann, Alexandra Pizzera, Sylvain Laborde
Herausgeber (Verlag)Elsevier
Erscheinungsdatum25.09.2015
Auflage1
Seiten275-289
ISBN (Print)9780128033777
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 25.09.2015

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