Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Guilford Glazer Faculty for Business and Management, Beer Sheva, Israel.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2013 Jun;39(6):803-13. doi: 10.1177/0146167213482984. Epub 2013 Apr 2.
Four experiments were designed to test the hypothesis that performance is particularly undermined by time pressure when people are avoidance motivated. The results supported this hypothesis across three different types of tasks, including those well suited and those ill suited to the type of information processing evoked by avoidance motivation. We did not find evidence that stress-related emotions were responsible for the observed effect. Avoidance motivation is certainly necessary and valuable in the self-regulation of everyday behavior. However, our results suggest that given its nature and implications, it seems best that avoidance motivation is avoided in situations that involve (time) pressure.
四项实验旨在验证一个假设，即在人们具有回避动机时，时间压力特别会削弱表现。结果在三种不同类型的任务中都支持了这一假设，包括那些非常适合和不适合回避动机引起的信息处理类型的任务。我们没有发现证据表明与压力相关的情绪是造成观察到的效果的原因。回避动机在日常生活行为的自我调节中肯定是必要且有价值的。然而，我们的结果表明，鉴于其性质和影响，在涉及（时间）压力的情况下，最好避免回避动机。
