Successful Emotions How Emotions Drive Cognitive Performance /

• 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.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Psychometrics.; Positive psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Positive Psychology.

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...

Table of 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.