Research Areas

Determinants of effort mobilization and its cardiovascular correlates
Restraint intensity and its influence on successful self-control
Effort Avoidance

Key Publications

Mlynski, C., Reza, A, Whitted, M, Wright, RA. (2020). Mortality salience, effort, and cardiovascular response to a bar-press challenge: Remarkably nuanced effects of a death prime on heart performance. Psychophysiology, e13649. DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13649

Mlynski, C., Wright, R. A., & Kelly, K. (2020). Ability influence on effort and associated cardiovascular responses: Nocebo-Placebo evidence that perception is key. Biological Psychology, 152, 107867. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107867

Carbajal, I., Mlynski, C., Willson, K., Gillis, K., & Wright, R. A. (2019). Circadian mismatch and cardiovascular response to a performance challenge: Larks in morning and evening work sessions. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 143, 96-104. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.05.011

Wright, R. A., Mlynski, C., & Carbajal, I. (2019). Outside thoughts on generating self-regulatory depletion (fatigue) effects in limited resource experiments. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(3), 469-480. DOI: 10.1177/1745691618815654

Mlynski, C., Wright, R. A., Agtarap, S. D., & Rojas, J. (2017). Naturally occurring fatigue and cardiovascular response to a simple memory challenge. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 119, 72-78. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.02.011

Agtarap, S. D., Wright, R. A., Mlynski, C., Hammad, R. & Blackledge, S. (2016). Success importance and urge magnitude as determinants of cardiovascular response to a behavioral restraint challenge. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 102, 18-24. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.03.004