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Re:Why Do Some People Learn Faster? by jilebedev on Thursday February 23, 2012 @01:41PM (#3626116)
Yet another question for Moser/Dweck: does the almost-immediate negative response to making mistakes diminish if the subject is in a state of flow? From personal experience, a state of flow while performing an intellectually engaging activity diminishes any and all negative feelings I may have. Positive and calm feelings remain, but when I encounter an obstacle or an error, I simply adapt to it like water flowing down a mountain.

I suspect that Moser/Dweck would find that programmers in a state of flow encountering a compile/runtime exception would exhibit significantly lower amplitude signal associated with immediate negative response.

Re:Why Do Some People Learn Faster? by KingMob on Thursday February 23, 2012 @04:11PM (#3626789)
For error-related negativity (ERN), "negative" refers to the direction of voltage change, not the person's attitude.

Since ERN amplitude is associated with better learning, it might be the other way around, that people in flow are producing stronger ERN's and correcting their mistakes faster.