TY  - GEN
A1  - Wolff, Wanja
A1  - Brand, Ralf
T1  - Editorial: using substances to enhance performance
BT  - a psychology of neuroenhancement
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 443 
KW  - neuroenhancement
KW  - cognitive enhancement
KW  - doping
KW  - behavior
KW  - performance enhancement
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-407274
IS  - 443
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Wolff, Wanja
A1  - Brand, Ralf
T1  - Editorial: Using Substances to Enhance Performance: A Psychology of Neuroenhancement
T2  - Frontiers in psychology
KW  - neuroenhancement
KW  - cognitive enhancement
KW  - doping
KW  - behavior
KW  - performance enhancement
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01741
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 7
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Wolff, Wanja
A1  - Brand, Ralf
T1  - Subjective stressors in school and their relation to neuroenhancement
BT  - a behavioral perspective on students' everyday life "doping"
N2  - Background: The use of psychoactive substances to neuroenhance cognitive performance is prevalent. Neuroenhancement (NE) in everyday life and doping in sport might rest on similar attitudinal representations, and both behaviors can be theoretically modeled by comparable means-to-end relations (substance-performance). A behavioral (not substance-based) definition of NE is proposed, with assumed functionality as its core component. It is empirically tested whether different NE variants (lifestyle drug, prescription drug, and illicit substance) can be regressed to school stressors.

Findings: Participants were 519 students (25.8 +/- 8.4 years old, 73.1% female). Logistic regressions indicate that a modified doping attitude scale can predict all three NE variants. Multiple NE substance abuse was frequent. Overwhelming demands in school were associated with lifestyle and prescription drug NE.

Conclusions: Researchers should be sensitive for probable structural similarities between enhancement in everyday life and sport and systematically explore where findings from one domain can be adapted for the other. Policy makers should be aware that students might misperceive NE as an acceptable means of coping with stress in school, and help to form societal sensitivity for the topic of NE among our younger ones in general.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 356 
KW  - Neuroenhancement
KW  - stress
KW  - school
KW  - doping
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-401131
ER  -