Tagging Multiple Emotional Stimuli: Negative Valence Has Little Benefit

Autor/inn/en	Watson, Derrick G.; Blagrove, Elisabeth
Titel	Tagging Multiple Emotional Stimuli: Negative Valence Has Little Benefit
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38 (2012) 3, S.785-803 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
DOI	10.1037/a0026730
Schlagwörter	Psychological Patterns; Visual Perception; Attention; Efficiency; Nonverbal Communication; Stimuli; Reaction Time; Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Aufmerksamkeit; Effectiveness; Effektivität; Wirkungsgrad; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Anreizsystem; Reaktionsvermögen; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Six experiments examined the influence of emotional valence on the tagging and enumeration of multiple targets. Experiments 1, 5 and 6 found that there was no difference in the efficiency of tagging/enumerating multiple negative or positive stimuli. Experiment 2 showed that, when neutral-expression face distractors were present, enumerating negative targets was faster overall, but was only more efficient for small numbers of targets. Experiments 3 and 4 determined that this negative target advantage was most likely caused by increased attentional guidance to negatively-valenced stimuli and was not based on simple visual feature differences. The findings suggest that a multiple-target negative stimulus advantage will only occur under conditions of attentional competition, and for relatively small numbers of targets. The results are discussed in relation to theories of multiple- and single-item processing, threat-priority mechanisms, and the types of representations that support different attentional tasks. (Contains 9 figures, 1 table and 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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