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Sources: Clive 1xbet online sports betting , 785-532-0608, 1xbet online sports betting @k-state.edu;
and Patrick Knight, 785-532-0612, knight@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, 785-532-6415, ebarcomb@k-state.edu
Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009
K-STATE ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTS USE THE VIDEO GAME ROCK BAND TO STUDY HOW PEOPLE ACHIEVE 1xbet online sports betting WHILE AT WORK, PERFORMING SKILLED TASKS
MANHATTAN -- By playing the video game Rock Band for an hour, Kansas State University students were able to help a pair of psychology professors with their research to understand how people can achieve 1xbet online sports betting while at work or while performing skilled tasks.
Clive Fullagar, a professor, and Patrick Knight, an associate professor, found that -- like Goldilocks -- most people achieve 1xbet online sports betting with work that is neither too easy nor too hard but just right.
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In a psychology lab in K-State's Bluemont Hall, 1xbet online sports betting played guitar in the game. In an adjacent room, the researchers watched a monitor with the same screen shot that the subjects saw. The researchers could control what songs 1xbet online sports betting played and how much of the feedback they saw.
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&1xbet online sports betting ;With Rock Band, it's the same speed and the same notes no matter what your ability level is,&1xbet online sports betting ; Knight said. &1xbet online sports betting ;We can control that and look at differences in performance in a more objective way.&1xbet online sports betting ;
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In another study that tracked architecture students over the course of a semester, Fullagar found that achieving 1xbet online sports betting was likely to result in a good mood and have a positive impact on psychological health. The findings appeared in September in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
Research has shown that the types of work that lead people to achieve 1xbet online sports betting have some common traits, including being goal directed, providing feedback and giving a sense of meaning to the worker. Moreover, 1xbet online sports betting occurs only when the person feels in control of the process.
The researchers also have studied 1xbet online sports betting with architecture and music students but said that tasks that result in 1xbet online sports betting don't have to be creative or skill-intensive in an artistic sense. Knight said some graduate students describe achieving 1xbet online sports betting when analyzing their data. Fullagar had an accounting major in one of his classes describe achieving 1xbet online sports betting by filling out income tax returns.
&1xbet online sports betting ;In speaking to her it made so much sense,&1xbet online sports betting ; Fullagar said. &1xbet online sports betting ;She has this skill that can help somebody by having a meaningful impact on their financial situation. And every single income tax return presents a unique challenge. This shows that people find flow in very different areas.&1xbet online sports betting ;
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&1xbet online sports betting ;With Rock Band you can test several subjects at once as they play in a band,&1xbet online sports betting ; Fullagar said. &1xbet online sports betting ;What happens when one member is in flow? Is there a contagion and do other people get in flow, or does it make them feel inferior?&1xbet online sports betting ;
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The researchers said other potential areas of study include the effect of having subjects help set their own goals and whether people in 1xbet online sports betting actually perform better or just perceive that they do.
