Successful Emotions - How Emotions Drive Cognitive Performance

Thisbook provides first time insight into whether emotions impactperformance of an online ability test. This question is gaining inrelevance as online assessment is used increasingly in personnelselection and since it has been shown that emotions impact the wayhumans think. Moreover, the author demonstrates, for the first time,how short film clips can elicit different emotions in an onlinesetting. Furthermore, she gives an overview of the area of onlineassessment, of models of intelligence and emotion, and of how emotionand cognition interact.

List of contents

Data Quality in Online Assessment.- Cognition, Emotions, and How They Interact.- Study of Online Emotion Induction.- Study of How Cognition and Affect Interact in Online Assessment.- Motivation, Type of Task, and Situation as Additional Factors Impacting Performance.

About the author

Dr.
Katharina Lochner is the Research Director at international cut-e
Group. In this position she connects science and practical use of
online assessment. 

Product details

• Authors: Katharina
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2016
• EAN: 9783658122300
• ISBN: 978-3-658-12230-0
• No. of pages: 455
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 211 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 610 g
• Illustrations: XVIII, 455 p. 31 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Affekt, C, Psychologische Tests, Messtechniken, positive psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology, cognitive psychology, Psychological testing & measurement, Psychometrics