16A - Xmas Special: Bad Gifts, Slipping on Ice, The Problem with Fruit Cake

How do people regulate and modify their emotions (e.g., when
pretending to like a bad gift)? Is this what is involved in
choking under pressure? Why do people slip on ice – is our visual
system letting us down, literally? Why does everybody hate fruit
cake – a lesson in multisensory perception?


 


Articles:


Esteem threat, self-regulatory breakdown, and emotional distress
as factors in self-defeating behavior


Temporal links to performing under pressure in international
soccer penalty shootouts


Reappraising Threat: How to Optimize Performance Under Pressure


There's No Prospective Information About Friction, or, Why I Fell
Over on the Ice


A systems perspective of slip and fall accidents on icy and snowy
surfaces


Why walkers slip: shine is not a reliable cue for slippery ground


On the psychological impact of food colour


 


More information:


http://www.perceptionaction.com/


My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)


My ASU Web page


Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)


Twitter: @Shakeywaits


Email: robgray@asu.edu


 


Credits:


Reigning Sound - If Christmas Can’t Bring You Home


Mudhoney – Slipping Away


Rocketship Park – Cakes & Cookies


Rue Royale – Deck the Halls 


 


via freemusicarchive.org