She did great!! Very cool longitudinal data you all are collecting 😊

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3) For a taste of the mountains accessible from the city, check out Red Rocks Amphitheater (~25 min drive from downtown, free entry during the day, trails + music museum) www.redrocksonline.com/plan-your-vi...
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Congratulations on your new lab!!

Congratulations to Rachel and Chase for their hard work on this project!! We welcome thoughts & feedback on these findings. ⚡🎉 n/n

These results suggest primary punishments ⚡ can have similar effects as reward on cog control (at least in some contexts) but may interact with individual differences in anxiety & arousal in important and potentially variable ways. 5/n

Interestingly, punishment-related improvements in performance were lower in high-anxiety indls & those with higher arousal responses to threat. In contrast, Experiment 2 examined effects of uncertain, unavoidable punishment & showed that higher arousal predicted BETTER performance under threat. 4/n

Given prior work, we were somewhat surprised that threat of punishment increased proactive control + improved performance, for both contingent (avoidable) and noncontingent (unavoidable) threat vs. baseline and neg affect conditions. Increases in proactive cntl were greater for avoidable threat. 3/n

Punishment influences on cognitive control have been less-characterized than reward influences and may vary in the extent they enhance/impair performance. Across two experiments, we examined effects of primary punishments (electric shock ⚡) and negative affect on proactive & reactive control 2/n

Congratulations Simon!!