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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-3-15
pubmed:abstractText
Research has demonstrated that people automatically devote more attention to negative information than to positive information. The authors conducted 3 experiments to test whether this bias is attenuated by a person's affective context. Specifically, the authors primed participants with positive and negative information using traditional (e.g., subliminal semantic priming) and nontraditional (e.g., social interactions) means and measured the amount of attention they allocated to positive and negative information. With both event-related brain potentials (Experiment 1) and the Stroop task (Experiments 2 and 3), results suggest that the attention bias to negative information is attenuated or eliminated when positive constructs are made accessible. The implications of this result for other biases to negative information and for the self-reinforcing nature of emotional disorders are discussed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0022-3514
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2006 APA, all rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
90
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
210-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Adaptation, Psychological, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Affect, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Attention, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Cerebral Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Color Perception, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Discrimination Learning, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Electroencephalography, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Evoked Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Interpersonal Relations, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Neuropsychological Tests, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Pattern Recognition, Visual, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Personal Construct Theory, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Reinforcement (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Semantics, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Set (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, pubmed-meshheading:16536647-Subliminal Stimulation
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Being bad isn't always good: affective context moderates the attention bias toward negative information.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, 43015, USA. nksmith@owu.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article