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Affect and Performance on Cognitive Task as a Function of Crowding and Noise 1
Author(s) -
Nagar Dinesh,
Pandey Janak
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1987.tb00306.x
Subject(s) - psychology , noise (video) , crowding , affect (linguistics) , task (project management) , cognition , feeling , effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance , social psychology , elementary cognitive task , cognitive psychology , function (biology) , audiology , developmental psychology , communication , computer science , artificial intelligence , engineering , systems engineering , neuroscience , evolutionary biology , image (mathematics) , biology , medicine
Sixty undergraduate males participated in an experiment with a 2 × 3 factorial design involving two levels of density and three levels of noise to demonstrate effects of the independent variables (density, noise) on cognitive task performance and affect. As predicted, it was found that crowding and noise lead to deterioration of subject's performance on cognitively complex tasks but not on simple (cognitive) task. Also, density and noise generated a negative feeling in the subjects. Significant two‐way interaction for complex task, showed variation in performance of S s of high and low density under low and high noise conditions. In addition, crowded‐condition subjects reported more dissatisfaction about their performance and evaluated the presence of the experimenter as significantly less pleasant than their noncrowded‐condition counterparts.