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Gender determination of effort and associated cardiovascular responses: When men place greater value on available performance incentives
Author(s) -
Barreto Patricia,
Wong Jem,
Estes Kaleb,
Wright Rex A.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01342.x
Subject(s) - incentive , psychology , value (mathematics) , social psychology , task (project management) , developmental psychology , microeconomics , economics , management , machine learning , computer science
Abstract Participants were presented an easy or difficult mental addition task and led to believe that they could win a traditionally masculine incentive by meeting a certain performance standard. As expected, blood pressure and heart rate responses during the work period were stronger under difficult conditions than easy ones among men but low under both difficulty conditions among women. Findings support the suggestion from a conceptual analysis grounded in motivation intensity theory that gender differences in cardiovascular response could be partially understood in terms of effort processes that occur where men and women place different value on available performance incentives.