“In-emotional blindness”? Lower detection rates for unexpected stimuli in negative compared to positive emotions
Determining how emotional experience influences attention is a long standing goal of cognitive psychologists. Emotion is often broken down into two main dimensions, arousal and valence. While many theories focus more on the influence of one dimension than the other, the systematic investigation of t...
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| author | Bermeitinger Christina Hackländer Ryan P. Baess Pamela Kappes Cathleen Meinhard Mareike |
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| description | Determining how emotional experience influences attention is a long standing goal of cognitive psychologists. Emotion is often broken down into two main dimensions, arousal and valence. While many theories focus more on the influence of one dimension than the other, the systematic investigation of the independent influences of the two dimensions of emotion on attention has been slow. In order to examine the relevance of both aspects of emotion, and their interplay on attention simultaneously, in the current experiment we induced low (satisfaction) and high (happiness) arousal positive emotions and low (sadness) and high (anger) arousal negative emotions in subjects before having them complete an inattentional blindness (IB) test. In line with theories that focus on the role of valence, we found that negative emotions led to more IB than positive emotions, and that arousal did not influence attention. Implications of the results for the theoretical contributions of the dimensions of emotion to visual attention are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-79c683647b4b4cceb70975ab8ac6e2f52023-02-05T18:11:57ZengDe GruyterOpen Psychology2543-88832022-12-014129230510.1515/psych-2022-0130“In-emotional blindness”? Lower detection rates for unexpected stimuli in negative compared to positive emotionsBermeitinger Christina0Hackländer Ryan P.1Baess Pamela2Kappes Cathleen3Meinhard Mareike4University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, GermanyUniversity of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, GermanyUniversity of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, GermanyUniversity of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, GermanyUniversity of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, GermanyDetermining how emotional experience influences attention is a long standing goal of cognitive psychologists. Emotion is often broken down into two main dimensions, arousal and valence. While many theories focus more on the influence of one dimension than the other, the systematic investigation of the independent influences of the two dimensions of emotion on attention has been slow. In order to examine the relevance of both aspects of emotion, and their interplay on attention simultaneously, in the current experiment we induced low (satisfaction) and high (happiness) arousal positive emotions and low (sadness) and high (anger) arousal negative emotions in subjects before having them complete an inattentional blindness (IB) test. In line with theories that focus on the role of valence, we found that negative emotions led to more IB than positive emotions, and that arousal did not influence attention. Implications of the results for the theoretical contributions of the dimensions of emotion to visual attention are discussed.https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2022-0130inattentional blindnessemotion inductionemotionattentional focusarousalunexpected stimulimood induction |
| spellingShingle | Bermeitinger Christina Hackländer Ryan P. Baess Pamela Kappes Cathleen Meinhard Mareike “In-emotional blindness”? Lower detection rates for unexpected stimuli in negative compared to positive emotions Open Psychology inattentional blindness emotion induction emotion attentional focus arousal unexpected stimuli mood induction |
| title | “In-emotional blindness”? Lower detection rates for unexpected stimuli in negative compared to positive emotions |
| title_full | “In-emotional blindness”? Lower detection rates for unexpected stimuli in negative compared to positive emotions |
| title_fullStr | “In-emotional blindness”? Lower detection rates for unexpected stimuli in negative compared to positive emotions |
| title_full_unstemmed | “In-emotional blindness”? Lower detection rates for unexpected stimuli in negative compared to positive emotions |
| title_short | “In-emotional blindness”? Lower detection rates for unexpected stimuli in negative compared to positive emotions |
| title_sort | in emotional blindness lower detection rates for unexpected stimuli in negative compared to positive emotions |
| topic | inattentional blindness emotion induction emotion attentional focus arousal unexpected stimuli mood induction |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2022-0130 |
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