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- Examined the performance and affective meanings of individuals
- engaged in stirring for the single purpose of exercise vs stirring for
- the dual purposes of exercise and mixing cookie batter. 30 female
- undergraduates in 2 groups stirred the same substance, but the
- dual-purpose group received added environmental stimuli: an edible
- product (cookies) and the aroma of baking cookies. Exertion and
- duration of involvement were measured. After the procedure, each S
- completed a short-form semantic differential that measures the
- affective meanings of an activity on 3 variables: evaluation, power,
- and action. Ss in the dual-purpose group rated their activity higher
- on the evaluation variable than did single-purpose Ss. The difference
- in exertion approached significance. (PsycLIT Database Copyright 1988
- American Psychological Assn, all rights reserved)
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