Were you able to find the actual article? I was able to access the PDF using my university password, which is why I couldn’t post it. What I gathered from reading part, not all, of the article is that behaviours that are automatic, i.e. controlled by habit, tend to take over under stress. Thus, if your decision to exercise is consciously controlled, i.e. it isn’t yet a habit, then it becomes much harder to choose to exercise under stress, and you’ll tend to revert to actions that are habitual, i.e. going on the Internet and eating junk food if those are your habits.
I did only read part of the article in detail and skimmed the rest. Bad habit.
Dr. Manhattan’s link worked for me, both at home and at the office, on two different machines.
Reading section 3, right column of page 3, bottom of the page, it seems that the stress is applied at the time the behavior is learned. I don’t know how long these things linger, so maybe it’s still present at the time the learned behavior is performed, since it’s performed just after it’s learned.
They acknowledge this ambiguity at section 3.1, left side of page 5. They make it clear that the effect (where stress slows the rate at which unrewarded behavior extinguishes) is still present if the stress is applied directly before performing the behavior, after the behavior is already learned. The effect is stronger if stress is present at both the time of learning and the time of performance, though.
Were you able to find the actual article? I was able to access the PDF using my university password, which is why I couldn’t post it. What I gathered from reading part, not all, of the article is that behaviours that are automatic, i.e. controlled by habit, tend to take over under stress. Thus, if your decision to exercise is consciously controlled, i.e. it isn’t yet a habit, then it becomes much harder to choose to exercise under stress, and you’ll tend to revert to actions that are habitual, i.e. going on the Internet and eating junk food if those are your habits.
I did only read part of the article in detail and skimmed the rest. Bad habit.
Dr. Manhattan’s link worked for me, both at home and at the office, on two different machines.
Reading section 3, right column of page 3, bottom of the page, it seems that the stress is applied at the time the behavior is learned. I don’t know how long these things linger, so maybe it’s still present at the time the learned behavior is performed, since it’s performed just after it’s learned.
They acknowledge this ambiguity at section 3.1, left side of page 5. They make it clear that the effect (where stress slows the rate at which unrewarded behavior extinguishes) is still present if the stress is applied directly before performing the behavior, after the behavior is already learned. The effect is stronger if stress is present at both the time of learning and the time of performance, though.