More than Skin Deep: About the Influence of Self-Relevant Avatars on Inhibitory Control

Autor/inn/en	Friehs, Maximilian A.; Dechant, Martin; Schäfer, Sarah; Mandryk, Regan L.
Titel	More than Skin Deep: About the Influence of Self-Relevant Avatars on Inhibitory Control
Quelle	In: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7 (2022), Artikel 31 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Friehs, Maximilian A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2365-7464
DOI	10.1186/s41235-022-00384-8
Schlagwörter	Inhibition; Self Control; Responses; Video Games; Task Analysis; Identification (Psychology); Self Motivation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hemmung; Selbstbeherrschung; Video game; Videospiel; Videospiele; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	One important aspect of cognitive control is the ability to stop a response in progress and motivational aspects, such as self-relevance, which may be able to influence this ability. We test the influence of self-relevance on stopping specifically if increased self-relevance enhances reactive response inhibition. We measured stopping capabilities using a gamified version of the stop-signal paradigm. Self-relevance was manipulated by allowing participants to customize their game avatar (Experiment 1) or by introducing a premade, self-referential avatar (Experiment 2). Both methods create a motivational pull that has been shown to increase motivation and identification. Each participant completed one block of trials with enhanced self-relevance and one block without enhanced self-relevance, with block order counterbalanced. In both experiments, the manipulation of self-relevance was effective in a majority of participants as indicated by self-report on the Player-Identification-Scale, and the effect was strongest in participants that completed the self-relevance block first. In those participants, the degree of subjectively experienced that self-relevance was associated with improvement in stopping performance over the course of the experiment. These results indicate that increasing the degree to which people identify with a cognitive task may induce them to exert greater, reactive inhibitory control. Consequently, self-relevant avatars may be used when an increase in commitment is desirable such as in therapeutic or training settings. (As Provided).
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