Successful Emotions How Emotions Drive Cognitive Performance /

This book provides first time insight into whether emotions impact performance of an online ability test. This question is gaining in relevance as online assessment is used increasingly in personnel selection and since it has been shown that emotions impact the way humans think. Moreover, the author...

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Main Author: Lochner, Katharina (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
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Summary:This book provides first time insight into whether emotions impact performance of an online ability test. This question is gaining in relevance as online assessment is used increasingly in personnel selection and since it has been shown that emotions impact the way humans think. Moreover, the author demonstrates, for the first time, how short film clips can elicit different emotions in an online setting. Furthermore, she gives an overview of the area of online assessment, of models of intelligence and emotion, and of how emotion and cognition interact. Contents Data Quality in Online Assessment Cognition, Emotions, and How They Interact Study of Online Emotion Induction Study of How Cognition and Affect Interact in Online Assessment Motivation, Type of Task, and Situation as Additional Factors Impacting Performance Target Groups Practitioners in the areas of psychological assessment and psychometrics The Author Dr. Katharina Lochner is the Research Director at international cut-e Group. In this position she connects science and practical use of online assessment.
Physical Description:XVIII, 455 p. 31 illus. online resource.
ISBN:9783658122317