Although psychologists have been investigating locus of control for more than two decades, few studies have examined how locus of control interacts with affective variables. To investigate the function of locus of control on arousal patterns and expressions of anger, 120 college students (60 internals, 60 externals, as measured by Rotter's (1966)…

Compares musicians' responses while listening to the first movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 104 using a two-dimensional continuous response digital interface that measured arousal (relaxing-exciting) and affect (ugly-beautiful). Indicates that there is an inverse relationship between the two dimensions. Makes comparisons to research that has…

Previous research has found that sympathetic arousal will cue information stored in memory with a similar level of arousal. To investigate the effect of arousal on the interpretation of other people's emotions, three studies were conducted. In the first study, 37 adult tennis players, who were either about to play tennis or who had just played,…

Investigates the effects of immediacy on cognitive learning in an experimental situation which removed the effects of affect from the measurement of cognitive learning. Finds a positive relationship between immediacy and cognitive learning at the short-term recall level. (MM)