Don't wait for the monsters to get you: A video game task to manipulate appraisals in real time

A pacman type video-game paradigm is introduced for the manipulation of app raisals in an ongoing active-coping task. Differences in current. appraisal conceptions and their implications for experimental approaches to the mani pulation of appraisals are discussed. Furthermore, the advantages of using concurrent physiological measures are outlined. The features of the game aM AZE and a shell program called PLAYGAME are described. The programs are ava ilable at no cost for researchers interested in using the paradigm.