Rex Wright, PhD
Department of Psychology
1155 Union Circle #311280
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203-5017E-mail: rex.wright@unt.edu
Office: TH 336
Phone: 940-565-2643
Dr. Rex Wright's research is concerned broadly with determinants and cardiovascular correlates of effort. Building on ideas of Jack Brehm, Paul Obrist and others, he has developed an analysis of motivation intensity that has wide-ranging implications, including ones for health and behavior, e.g., in educational and organizational settings. An abiding interest has been in the manner in which ability factors affect effort and associated cardiovascular responses, with a special focus on fatigue as an ability determinant. Very recent studies have concerned fatigue, cognitive impairment and gender influence on effort-related cardiovascular responses as well as determinants and cardiovascular correlates of self-regulatory restraint, that is, resistance against an urge to act in some fashion.