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 

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