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Competition elicits arousal and affect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

R. Hans Phaf
R. Hans Phaf*
Affiliation:
Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center and the Brain and Cognition Group at the Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 XA Amsterdam, The Netherlands r.h.phaf@uva.nl
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Abstract

The emotion–cognition integration in Mather et al. can be extended by specifying the relationship between competition and arousal in the reverse direction. According to affective monitoring, competition raises arousal, which, when sustained, results in negative affect, evoking theta oscillations, and when resolved, in positive affect, evoking gamma oscillations. Competition should be considered a core process in both cognition and emotion.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e220
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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