Cognitive and Physiological Measures in Well-Being Science: Limitations and Lessons.

ABSTRACT: Social and personality psychology have been criticized for overreliance on potentially biased self-report variables. In well-being science, researchers have called for more "objective" physiological and cognitive measures to evaluate the efficacy of well-being-increasing interventions. This may now be possible with the recent rise of cost-effective, commercially available wireless physiological recording devices and smartphone-based cognitive testing. We sought to determine whether cognitive and physiological measures, coupled with machine learning methods, could quantify the effects of positive interventions. The current 2-part study used a college sample (N = 245) to contrast the cognitive (memory, attention, construal) and physiological (autonomic, electroencephalogram) effects o

SUBMITTER: Yetton BD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6640165 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature