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SUBMITTER: Lynn MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3779819 | biostudies-other | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lynn Margaret T MT Van Dessel Pieter P Brass Marcel M
Frontiers in psychology 20130923
Determinist beliefs have been shown to impact basic motor preparation, prosocial behavior, performance monitoring, and voluntary inhibition, presumably by diminishing the recruitment of cognitive resources for self-regulation. We sought to support and extend previous findings by applying a belief manipulation to a novel inhibition paradigm that requires participants to either execute or suppress a prepotent withdrawal reaction from a strong aversive stimulus (thermal pain). Action and inhibition ...[more]