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March DS, Hasty C, Olivett V. The threat sensitivity scale: A brief self-report measure of dispositional sensitivity toward perceiving threats to physical harm. Sci Rep 2024; 14:11304. [PMID: 38760426 PMCID: PMC11101408 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61476-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2024] [Accepted: 05/06/2024] [Indexed: 05/19/2024] Open
Abstract
The possibility of experiencing physical harm caused by an object, animal, or person is an omnipresent risk in almost any situation. People show variability in their in the propensity to perceive the possibility of harm from any ostensibly innocuous object or situation-a so-called threat bias. Despite the important psychological and societal consequences resulting from individual differences in physical threat bias, there does not currently exist an easily administered means to capture this disposition. We therefore endeavored to create a brief reliable self-report index of threat sensitivity for use by the many fields interested in the role of threat processing. We present here a physical threat sensitivity scale (TSS) that captures the dispositional tendency to perceive the possibility of physical harm in ostensibly innocuous situations or objects. We detail the development and validation of the TSS as a reliable index of individual threat bias (Studies 1a and 1b) and provide strong convergent evidence of the relationship between TS and both relevant individual differences (Study 2) and behavioral and perceptual indicates of threat bias (Study 3 and Study 4).
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- David S March
- Florida State University, 1107 W. Call St., Tallahassee, FL, 32304, USA.
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- Florida State University, 1107 W. Call St., Tallahassee, FL, 32304, USA
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- Florida State University, 1107 W. Call St., Tallahassee, FL, 32304, USA
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Zsido AN, Hout MC, Hernandez M, White B, Polák J, Kiss BL, Godwin HJ. No evidence of attentional prioritization for threatening targets in visual search. Sci Rep 2024; 14:5651. [PMID: 38454142 PMCID: PMC10920919 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-56265-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024] Open
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Throughout human evolutionary history, snakes have been associated with danger and threat. Research has shown that snakes are prioritized by our attentional system, despite many of us rarely encountering them in our daily lives. We conducted two high-powered, pre-registered experiments (total N = 224) manipulating target prevalence to understand this heightened prioritization of threatening targets. Target prevalence refers to the proportion of trials wherein a target is presented; reductions in prevalence consistently reduce the likelihood that targets will be found. We reasoned that snake targets in visual search should experience weaker effects of low target prevalence compared to non-threatening targets (rabbits) because they should be prioritized by searchers despite appearing rarely. In both experiments, we found evidence of classic prevalence effects but (contrasting prior work) we also found that search for threatening targets was slower and less accurate than for nonthreatening targets. This surprising result is possibly due to methodological issues common in prior studies, including comparatively smaller sample sizes, fewer trials, and a tendency to exclusively examine conditions of relatively high prevalence. Our findings call into question accounts of threat prioritization and suggest that prior attention findings may be constrained to a narrow range of circumstances.
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- Andras N Zsido
- Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, 6 Ifjusag Street, Pécs, 7624, Baranya, Hungary.
- Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary.
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- Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
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- Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
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- Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
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- Department of Economy and Management, Ambis University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, 6 Ifjusag Street, Pécs, 7624, Baranya, Hungary
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- School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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Pakai-Stecina DT, Hout MC, Bali C, Zsido AN. Can the processing of task-irrelevant threatening stimuli be inhibited? - The role of shape and valence in the saliency of threatening objects. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2024; 243:104150. [PMID: 38271849 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Revised: 01/12/2024] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
Abstract
Numerous studies have demonstrated that attention is quickly oriented towards threatening stimuli, and that this attentional bias is difficult to inhibit. The root cause(s) of this bias may be attributable to the affective (e.g., valence) or visual features (e.g., shape) of threats. In two experiments (behavioral, eye-tracking), we tested which features play a bigger role in the salience of threats. In both experiments, participants looked for a neutral target (butterfly, lock) among other neutral objects. In half of the trials a threatening (snake, gun) or nonthreatening (but visually similar; worm, hairdryer) task-irrelevant distractor was also present at a near or far distance from the target. Behavioral results indicate that both distractor types interfered with task performance. Rejecting nonthreatening distractors as nontargets was easier when they were presented further from the target but distance had no effect when the distractor was threatening. Eye-tracking results showed that participants fixated less often (and for less time) on threatening compared to nonthreatening distractors. They also viewed targets for less time when a threatening distractor was present (compared to nonthreatening). Results suggest that visual features of threats are easier to suppress than affective features, and the latter may have a stronger role in eliciting attentional biases.
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- Diána T Pakai-Stecina
- Institute of Psychology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs, Hungary
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- Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University, United States
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- Institute of Psychology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs, Hungary.
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Zsidó AN. The effect of emotional arousal on visual attentional performance: a systematic review. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2024; 88:1-24. [PMID: 37417982 PMCID: PMC10805986 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-023-01852-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/25/2023] [Indexed: 07/08/2023]
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Although the arousal elicited by emotional stimuli, similarly to valence, is an integrative part of emotion theories, previous studies and reviews mostly focused on the valence of a stimulus and rarely investigated the role of arousal. Here, I systematically searched for articles that used visual attentional paradigms, manipulated emotional arousal by auditory or visual, task-relevant or task-irrelevant stimuli, measured behavioral responses, ocular behavior, or neural correlates. I found that task-relevant arousing stimuli draw and hold attention regardless of the modality. In contrast, task-irrelevant arousing stimuli impaired task performance. However, when the emotional content precedes the task or it is presented for a longer duration, arousal increased performance. Future directions on how research could address the remaining questions are discussed.
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- Andras N Zsidó
- Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, 6 Ifjusag Str., Pécs, 7624, Hungary.
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Railo H, Kraufvelin N, Santalahti J, Laine T. Rapid withdrawal from a threatening animal is movement-specific and mediated by reflex-like neural processing. Neuroimage 2023; 283:120441. [PMID: 37923282 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Revised: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 11/01/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023] Open
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Responses to potentially dangerous stimuli are among the most basic animal behaviors. While research has shown that threats automatically capture the attention of human participants, research has failed to demonstrate automatic behavioral responses to threats in humans. Using a novel naturalistic paradigm, we show that two species of animals humans often report fearing trigger rapid withdrawal responses: participants withdrew their arm from photos of snakes and spiders faster, and with higher acceleration when compared to bird and butterfly stimuli. The behavior was specific to withdrawal as approach movements or button-press/release tasks failed to detect a similar difference. Moreover, between-participant differences in how aversive they found the stimuli predicted the participant's withdrawal speed, indicating that the paradigm was also sensitive to trait-level differences between individuals. Using electroencephalography (EEG), we show that the fast withdrawal was mediated by two attentional processes. First, fast withdrawal responses were associated with early amplification of sensory signals (40-110 ms after stimulus). Second, a later correlate of feature-based attention (early posterior negativity, EPN, 200-240 ms after stimulus) revealed the opposite pattern: Stronger EPN was associated with slower behavioral responses, suggesting that the deployment of attention towards the threatening stimulus features, or failure to "disengage" attention from the stimulus, was detrimental for withdrawal speed. Altogether, the results suggest that rapid behavioral withdrawal from a threatening animal is mediated by reflex-like attentional processing, and later, conscious attention to stimulus features may hinder escaping the treat.
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- Henry Railo
- Department of Psychology and Speech Language Pathology, University of Turku, Assistentinkatu 7, 20014 Finland; Turku Brain and Mind Centre, University of Turku, Finland.
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- Department of Psychology and Speech Language Pathology, University of Turku, Assistentinkatu 7, 20014 Finland; Turku Brain and Mind Centre, University of Turku, Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Speech Language Pathology, University of Turku, Assistentinkatu 7, 20014 Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Speech Language Pathology, University of Turku, Assistentinkatu 7, 20014 Finland
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March DS, Olson MA, Gaertner L. Automatic threat processing shows evidence of exclusivity. Behav Brain Sci 2023; 46:e131. [PMID: 37462171 DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x22002928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/20/2023]
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De Neys argues against assigning exclusive capacities to automatic versus controlled processes. The dual implicit process model provides a theoretical rationale for the exclusivity of automatic threat processing, and corresponding data provide empirical evidence of such exclusivity. De Neys's dismissal of exclusivity is premature and based on a limited sampling of psychological research.
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- David S March
- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, ://psy.fsu.edu/faculty/marchd/march.dp.php
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA ://psychology.utk.edu/faculty/gaertner.php
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA ://psychology.utk.edu/faculty/gaertner.php
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Olivett VJ, Maranges HM, March DS. The unique roles of threat perception and misinformation accuracy judgments in the relationship between political orientation and COVID‐19 health behaviors. JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2023. [DOI: 10.1111/jasp.12960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- Department of Human Development and Family Science, The Family Institute Florida State University Tallahassee Florida USA
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- Department of Psychology Florida State University Tallahassee Florida USA
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March DS. Perceiving a Danger Within: Black Americans Associate Black Men With Physical Threat. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.1177/19485506221142970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Recent work suggests that good/bad out-group favoritism of Blacks for Whites may reflect positive associations with White rather than negative associations with Black. The Dual Implicit Process Model suggests that Blacks may come to associate their own group with threat, even absent a concurrent Black-negative association. This work tests this idea among Black Americans. Three studies tested this possibility using mouse-tracking (Study 1) and evaluative priming tasks (Studies 2 and 3) to assess how quickly participants make judgments involving Black versus White male faces and names. All studies found that that Black Americans hold automatic Black-threat associations absent automatic Black-negative associations. This supports the Dual Implicit Process Model’s threat versus negativity distinction within the realm of anti-Black bias and supplements recent work by showing that the presence of out-group favoritism on one dimension (i.e., threat) can occur even in the absence of out-group favoritism on a seemingly related dimension (i.e., negativity).
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Coles NA, March DS, Marmolejo-Ramos F, Larsen JT, Arinze NC, Ndukaihe ILG, Willis ML, Foroni F, Reggev N, Mokady A, Forscher PS, Hunter JF, Kaminski G, Yüvrük E, Kapucu A, Nagy T, Hajdu N, Tejada J, Freitag RMK, Zambrano D, Som B, Aczel B, Barzykowski K, Adamus S, Filip K, Yamada Y, Ikeda A, Eaves DL, Levitan CA, Leiweke S, Parzuchowski M, Butcher N, Pfuhl G, Basnight-Brown DM, Hinojosa JA, Montoro PR, Javela D LG, Vezirian K, IJzerman H, Trujillo N, Pressman SD, Gygax PM, Özdoğru AA, Ruiz-Fernandez S, Ellsworth PC, Gaertner L, Strack F, Marozzi M, Liuzza MT. A multi-lab test of the facial feedback hypothesis by the Many Smiles Collaboration. Nat Hum Behav 2022; 6:1731-1742. [PMID: 36266452 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-022-01458-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2019] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Following theories of emotional embodiment, the facial feedback hypothesis suggests that individuals' subjective experiences of emotion are influenced by their facial expressions. However, evidence for this hypothesis has been mixed. We thus formed a global adversarial collaboration and carried out a preregistered, multicentre study designed to specify and test the conditions that should most reliably produce facial feedback effects. Data from n = 3,878 participants spanning 19 countries indicated that a facial mimicry and voluntary facial action task could both amplify and initiate feelings of happiness. However, evidence of facial feedback effects was less conclusive when facial feedback was manipulated unobtrusively via a pen-in-mouth task.
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- Nicholas A Coles
- Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Center for Change and Complexity in Learning, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Abakaliki, Nigeria
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- Department of Psychology, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Abakaliki, Nigeria
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- School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel
- Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Psychology, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Psychology, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil
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- Vernacular Languages Department, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil
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- Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK
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- Center of Research on Cognition and Behavior, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Psychology, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK
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- Department of Psychology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Psychology, United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
- Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología Básica 1, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Programa de Psicología, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- LIP/PC2s, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, Üsküdar University, İstanbul, Turkey
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- FOM University of Applied Sciences, Essen, Germany
- Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, 'Magna Graecia' University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
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Yuan Y, Liu J, Wu Z, Zhou G, Sommer W, Yue Z. Does Eye Gaze Uniquely Trigger Spatial Orienting to Socially Relevant Information? A Behavioral and ERP Study. Brain Sci 2022; 12:brainsci12091133. [PMID: 36138869 PMCID: PMC9497197 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12091133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Revised: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Using behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) measures, the present study examined whether eye gaze triggers a unique form of attentional orienting toward threat-relevant targets. A threatening or neutral target was presented after a non-predictive gaze or an arrow cue. In Experiment 1, reaction times indicated that eye gaze and arrow cues triggered different attention orienting towards threatening targets, which was confirmed by target-elicited P3b latency in Experiment 2. Specifically, for targets preceded by arrow and gaze cues, P3b peak latency was shorter for neutral targets than threatening targets. However, the latency differences were significantly smaller for gaze cues than for arrow cues. Moreover, target-elicited N2 amplitude indicated a significantly stronger cue validity effect of eye gaze than that of arrows. These findings suggest that eye gaze uniquely triggers spatial attention orienting to socially threatening information.
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- Yichen Yuan
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Social Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental Health, Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Social Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental Health, Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Social Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental Health, Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Social Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental Health, Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Institut für Psychologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
- Correspondence: (W.S.); (Z.Y.)
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Social Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental Health, Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
- Correspondence: (W.S.); (Z.Y.)
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Female advantage in threat avoidance manifests in threat reaction but not threat detection. Behav Brain Sci 2022; 45:e142. [PMID: 35875959 DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x22000462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Threat avoidance involves both detection of a threatening stimulus and reaction to it. We demonstrate with empirically validated stimuli (that are threatening, nonthreatening-negative, neutral, or positive) that threat detection is more pronounced among males, whereas threat reactivity is more pronounced among females. Why women are less efficient detectors of threat challenges Benenson et al.'s conceptual analysis.
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Zsidó AN, Stecina DT, Hout MC. Task demands determine whether shape or arousal of a stimulus modulates competition for visual working memory resources. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2022; 224:103523. [PMID: 35121345 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Revised: 01/24/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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It has been posited (Öhman, 1986) that the processing of threatening stimuli became prioritized during the course of mammalian evolution and that such objects may still enjoy an advantage in visual processing to this day. It has been well-documented that both mid-level visual features (i.e., conjunctions of low-level features) and the arousal level of threatening stimuli affect attentional allocation (Cisler & Koster, 2010; Wolfe & Horowitz, 2004). Despite this, few studies have investigated the effect these factors have on visual working memory resources. Here, we investigated these factors using a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm, and by manipulating mid-level features (specifically, shape: similar vs. dissimilar) and the arousal level (non-threatening vs threatening) of the stimuli. Participants watched an RSVP stream in preparation for an upcoming memory test. Then, they completed a two-alternative forced-choice recognition memory test (with semantically matched foils) wherein they had to identify which item they had seen in the RSVP stream. Our results showed that when shape was a sufficient feature to discriminate the target from the other items in the stream, there was no effect of arousal (i.e., threat level) on reaction time or accuracy during the memory test. However, when the shapes of all the stimuli in the visual stream were highly similar, an effect of arousal appeared: When the target had a different arousal level than the background items (i.e., non-targets), performance was improved. Together, the results suggest that both mid-level visual features and arousal level can modulate competition for visual working memory resources.
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Vamanu I, Zak E. Information source and content: articulating two key concepts for information evaluation. INFORMATION AND LEARNING SCIENCES 2022. [DOI: 10.1108/ils-09-2021-0084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
Abstract
Purpose
Learning how to identify and avoid inaccurate information, especially disinformation, is essential for any informational consumer. Many information literacy tools specify criteria that can help users evaluate information more efficiently and effectively. However, the authors of these tools do not always agree on which criteria should be emphasized, what they mean or why they should be included in the tool. This study aims to clarify two such criteria (source credibility and soundness of content), which evolutionary cognitive psychology research emphasize. This paper uses them as a basis for building a question-based evaluation tool and draws implications for information literacy programs.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper draws on cross-disciplinary scholarship (in library and information science, evolutionary cognitive psychology and rhetoric studies) to explore 15 approaches to information evaluation which conceptualizes source credibility and content soundness, two markers of information accuracy. This paper clarifies these two concepts, builds two sets of questions meant to elicit empirical indicators of information accuracy and deploys them against a recent piece of journalism which embeds a conspiracy theory about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper shows how the two standards can help us determine that the article is misleading. This paper draws implications for information literacy programs.
Findings
The meanings of and relationships between source credibility and content soundness often diverge across the 15 approaches to information evaluation this paper analyzed. Conceptual analysis allowed the authors to articulate source credibility in terms of authority and trustworthiness, and content soundness in terms of plausibility and evidential support. These conceptualizations allow the authors to formulate two respective sets of appropriate questions, the answers to which are meant to function as empirical indicators for the two standards. Deploying this instrument provides us with the opportunity to understand why a certain article discussing COVID-19 is misleading.
Originality/value
By articulating source credibility and content soundness as the two key criteria for evaluating information, together with guiding questions meant to elicit empirical indicators for them, this paper streamlines the process through which information users can judge the likelihood that a piece of information they encounter is accurate.
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March DS, Gaertner L, Olson MA. On the Automatic Nature of Threat: Physiological and Evaluative Reactions to Survival-Threats Outside Conscious Perception. AFFECTIVE SCIENCE 2022; 3:135-144. [PMID: 36046094 PMCID: PMC9382976 DOI: 10.1007/s42761-021-00090-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2021] [Accepted: 10/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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A neural architecture that preferentially processes immediate survival threats relative to other negatively and positively valenced stimuli presumably evolved to facilitate survival. The empirical literature on threat superiority, however, has suffered two problems: methodologically distinguishing threatening stimuli from negative stimuli and differentiating whether responses are sped and strengthened by threat superiority or delayed and diminished by conscious processing of nonthreatening stimuli. We addressed both problems in three within-subject studies that compared responses to empirically validated sets of threating, negative, positive, and neutral stimuli, and isolated threat superiority from the opposing effect of conscious attention by presenting stimuli outside conscious perception. Consistent with threat superiority, threatening stimuli elicited stronger skin-conductance (Study 1), startle-eyeblink (Study 2), and more negative downstream evaluative responses (Study 3) relative to the undifferentiated responses to negative, positive, and neutral stimuli. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-021-00090-6.
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- David S. March
- grid.255986.50000 0004 0472 0419Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL USA
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- grid.411461.70000 0001 2315 1184University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA
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- grid.411461.70000 0001 2315 1184University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA
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Olivett VJ, March DS. White civilians’ implicit danger evaluation of police officers underlies explicit perception of police. Cogn Res Princ Implic 2021; 6:81. [PMID: 34928473 PMCID: PMC8688646 DOI: 10.1186/s41235-021-00343-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 11/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The role of implicit processes during police-civilian encounters is well studied from the perspective of the police. Decades of research on the “shooter bias” suggests that implicit Black-danger associations potentiate the perception of threat of Black individuals, leading to a racial bias in the decision to use lethal force. Left understudied are civilians’ possible associations of police with danger and how such associations pervade behavior and explicit views of the police. The current work begins to address this gap. In two within-subjects studies, we separately assess police-threat (i.e., safety/danger) and police-valence (i.e., good/bad) associations as well as their relative influences on explicit perceptions of police. Study 1 revealed that implicit threat evaluations (police-danger associations) more strongly predicted negative explicit views of the police compared to implicit valence evaluations (police-negative associations). Study 2 replicated these findings and suggests that individuals evaluate the police as more dangerous versus negative when each response is pitted against each other within single misattribution procedure trials. The possible implications for explicit attitudes toward police reform and behavior during police-civilian encounters are discussed.
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Zsidó AN, Stecina DT, Cseh R, Hout MC. The effects of task-irrelevant threatening stimuli on orienting- and executive attentional processes under cognitive load. Br J Psychol 2021; 113:412-433. [PMID: 34773254 PMCID: PMC9299041 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2021] [Accepted: 10/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Human visual attention is biased to rapidly detect threats in the environment so that our nervous system can initiate quick reactions. The processes underlying threat detection (and how they operate under cognitive load), however, are still poorly understood. Thus, we sought to test the impact of task‐irrelevant threatening stimuli on the salience network and executive control of attention during low and high cognitive load. Participants were exposed to neutral or threatening pictures (with moderate and high arousal levels) as task‐irrelevant distractors in near (parafoveal) and far (peripheral) positions while searching for numbers in ascending order in a matrix array. We measured reaction times and recorded eye‐movements. Our results showed that task‐irrelevant distractors primarily influenced behavioural measures during high cognitive load. The distracting effect of threatening images with moderate arousal level slowed reaction times for finding the first number. However, this slowing was offset by high arousal threatening stimuli, leading to overall shorter search times. Eye‐tracking measures showed that participants fixated threatening pictures more later and for shorter durations compared to neutral images. Together, our results indicate a complex relationship between threats and attention that results not in a unitary bias but in a sequence of effects that unfold over time.
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- Andras N Zsidó
- Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Pecs, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Pecs, Hungary
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- Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.,National Science Foundation, Virginia, Alexandria, USA
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Capellini R, Sacchi S. "Be careful what you do": How social threat influences social attention driven by reach-to-grasp movements. The Journal of Social Psychology 2021; 162:199-215. [PMID: 33860728 DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2021.1902920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Social attention is the ability to share with social partners the attentional focus on an object and to orient attentional resources after observing others' behaviors. In the present work, we analyzed whether social threat may influence social attention during the observation of social agents' reach-to-grasp movements. In two experimental studies, we adopted a Posner-like paradigm: participants were required to classify neutral stimuli appearing in a congruent or incongruent position with the actor's movement. Membership (ingroup vs. outgroup) and contextual cues (neutral vs. threatening objects) were manipulated. The results showed a robust action-cueing effect: responses to stimuli in a congruent position with the actor's action were faster than responses to incongruent stimuli. Interestingly, we found a stronger effect for the threatening outgroup (i.e., Iraqi) than for the ingroup (i.e., Italian), especially in presence of menacing objects. No effects were found when observing the non-threatening outgroup (i.e., Japanese).
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- Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca
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March DS, Olson MA, Gaertner L. Lions, and Tigers, and Implicit Measures, Oh My! Implicit Assessment and the Valence vs. Threat Distinction. SOCIAL COGNITION 2020. [DOI: 10.1521/soco.2020.38.supp.s154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Physically threatening objects are negative, but negative objects are not necessarily threatening. Moreover, responses elicited by threats to physical harm are distinct from those elicited by other negatively (and positively) valenced stimuli. We discuss the importance of the threat versus valence distinction for implicit measurement both in terms of the activated evaluation and the design of the measure employed to assess that evaluation. We suggest that accounting for the distinct evaluations of threat and valence better enables implicit measures to provide understanding and prediction of subsequent judgment, emotion, and behavior.
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Ward RT, Lotfi S, Sallmann H, Lee HJ, Larson CL. State anxiety reduces working memory capacity but does not impact filtering cost for neutral distracters. Psychophysiology 2020; 57:e13625. [PMID: 32598491 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2019] [Revised: 05/05/2020] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Current theories propose that anxiety adversely impacts working memory (WM) by restricting WM capacity and interfering with efficient filtering of task-irrelevant information. The current study investigated the effect of shock-induced state anxiety on WM capacity and the ability to filter task-irrelevant neutral stimuli. We measured the contralateral delay activity (CDA), an event-related potential that indexes the number of items maintained in WM, while participants completed a lateralized change detection task. The task included low and high WM loads, as well as a low load plus distracter condition. This design was used to assess WM capacity for low and high loads and investigate an individual's ability to filter neutral task-irrelevant stimuli. Participants completed the task under two conditions, threat of shock and safe. We observed a reduced CDA in the threat compared to the safe condition that was specific for high memory load. However, we did not find any differences in CDA filtering cost between threat and safe conditions. In addition, we did not find any differences in behavioral performance between the threat and safe conditions. These findings suggest that being in an anxious state reduces the neural representation for large amounts of information in WM, but have little effect on the filtering of neutral distracters.
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- Richard T Ward
- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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Smith ER, Sherrin S, Fraune MR, Šabanović S. Positive Emotions, More Than Anxiety or Other Negative Emotions, Predict Willingness to Interact With Robots. PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN 2020; 46:1270-1283. [PMID: 31959093 DOI: 10.1177/0146167219900439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Like early work on human intergroup interaction, previous research on people's willingness to interact with robots has focused mainly on effects of anxiety. However, existing findings suggest that other negative emotions as well as some positive emotions also have effects. This article systematically examines the roles of positive and negative emotions in predicting willingness to interact with robots, using an integrative analysis of data across five studies that use diverse interaction conditions and several types of robots. We hypothesize and find that positive emotions account for more variance than negative emotions. Practically, the findings suggest new strategies for interventions, aimed at increasing positive emotions to increase willingness to engage in intergroup interaction. No existing work has examined whether positive emotions are stronger predictors than negative emotions for willingness for human intergroup interaction, an important topic for future research.
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McNulty JK, Olson MA, Joiner TE. Implicit interpersonal evaluations as a risk factor for suicidality: Automatic spousal attitudes predict changes in the probability of suicidal thoughts. J Pers Soc Psychol 2019; 117:978-997. [PMID: 30869986 PMCID: PMC6745018 DOI: 10.1037/pspi0000180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Thwarted social connection is a critical risk factor for suicidality, and several theoretical perspectives highlight the importance of interpersonal affect to social connection. Given that marriage is an increasingly important source of social connection, we examined the role of automatic spousal attitudes-conceptualized as spontaneously activated affective associations involving one's spouse-in predicting suicidal thoughts in 3 longitudinal studies of married couples. Studies 1a (N = 204) and 1b (N = 159) demonstrated that more positive automatic spousal attitudes, assessed implicitly shortly after the marriage as the speed with which people categorized positive relative to negative words following photo-primes of their spouse, were associated with a weakened probability of the self-reported suicidal thoughts 1 year later. Study 2 (N = 229) provided further evidence that automatic spousal attitudes predict suicidal thoughts by showing that newly conditioned automatic spousal attitudes predicted suicidal thoughts. In that study, more positive automatic spousal attitudes exhibited after an evaluative conditioning procedure were associated with a reduced probability of suicidal thoughts 2 months later. Across studies, an increase (1 SD) in automatic spousal attitudes was associated with approximately a 50% decreased probability of suicidal thought. In all 3 studies, implicitly measured spousal attitudes captured variance in suicidal thoughts not captured by implicitly measured attitudes toward oneself and self-reported marital satisfaction, both of which proved to be less reliable predictors of suicidal thoughts. These findings highlight the importance of automatic interpersonal processes to well-being generally and suicidality specifically, and may thereby suggest novel methods for reducing risk of suicidality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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Zsido AN, Matuz A, Inhof O, Darnai G, Budai T, Bandi S, Csatho A. Disentangling the facilitating and hindering effects of threat-related stimuli - A visual search study. Br J Psychol 2019; 111:665-682. [PMID: 31633809 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2019] [Revised: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Although large body of research has demonstrated the attention-grabbing nature of threat-related stimuli, threat could also facilitate attentional processes. Previous studies suggest a linear relationship between the facilitating effect of the arousal level conveyed by threat and performance on visual search tasks. Due to the temporal competition bias favouring stimuli with higher arousal level, this could be more pronounced for shorter onset times. Here, through two experiments we aimed to disentangle the two effects by using a visual search paradigm that allowed us to separate the emotional stimuli and the cognitive task. We manipulated stimulus onset time and threat intensity. Participants saw neutral and threatening pictures as priming stimuli, and then, they had to find numbers in ascending order in a matrix array. We measured the reaction time for finding the first number, and search time for finding all the numbers. Our results showed that when the priming stimulus is presented, longer threatening pictures produced longer reaction times compared to neutral ones, which was reversed with increase in arousal. We did not find any significant effects for the shorter onset time. Further theoretical and methodological implications are discussed.
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- Department of Behavioural Sciences, Medical School, University of Pécs, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Pecs, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Pecs, Hungary.,Department of Neurology, Medical School, University of Pécs, Hungary.,MTA-PTE Clinical Neuroscience MR Research Group, Pécs, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Pecs, Hungary
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- Department of Behavioural Sciences, Medical School, University of Pécs, Hungary
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Martin GN. (Why) Do You Like Scary Movies? A Review of the Empirical Research on Psychological Responses to Horror Films. Front Psychol 2019; 10:2298. [PMID: 31681095 PMCID: PMC6813198 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 09/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Why do we watch and like horror films? Despite a century of horror film making and entertainment, little research has examined the human motivation to watch fictional horror and how horror film influences individuals’ behavioral, cognitive, and emotional responses. This review provides the first synthesis of the empirical literature on the psychology of horror film using multi-disciplinary research from psychology, psychotherapy, communication studies, development studies, clinical psychology, and media studies. The paper considers the motivations for people’s decision to watch horror, why people enjoy horror, how individual differences influence responses to, and preference for, horror film, how exposure to horror film changes behavior, how horror film is designed to achieve its effects, why we fear and why we fear specific classes of stimuli, and how liking for horror develops during childhood and adolescence. The literature suggests that (1) low empathy and fearfulness are associated with more enjoyment and desire to watch horror film but that specific dimensions of empathy are better predictors of people’s responses than are others; (2) there is a positive relationship between sensation-seeking and horror enjoyment/preference, but this relationship is not consistent; (3) men and boys prefer to watch, enjoy, and seek our horror more than do women and girls; (4) women are more prone to disgust sensitivity or anxiety than are men, and this may mediate the sex difference in the enjoyment of horror; (5) younger children are afraid of symbolic stimuli, whereas older children become afraid of concrete or realistic stimuli; and (6) in terms of coping with horror, physical coping strategies are more successful in younger children; priming with information about the feared object reduces fear and increases children’s enjoyment of frightening television and film. A number of limitations in the literature is identified, including the multifarious range of horror stimuli used in studies, disparities in methods, small sample sizes, and a lack of research on cross-cultural differences and similarities. Ideas for future research are explored.
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- G Neil Martin
- Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, School of Psychotherapy and Psychology, Regent's University London, London, United Kingdom
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Zsido AN, Csatho A, Matuz A, Stecina D, Arato A, Inhof O, Darnai G. Does Threat Have an Advantage After All? - Proposing a Novel Experimental Design to Investigate the Advantages of Threat-Relevant Cues in Visual Processing. Front Psychol 2019; 10:2217. [PMID: 31611835 PMCID: PMC6776589 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2019] [Accepted: 09/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The automatic visual attentional procession of threatening stimuli over non-threatening cues has long been a question. The so-called classical visual search task (VST) has quickly become the go-to paradigm to investigate this. However, the latest results showed that the confounding results could originate from the shortcomings of the VST. Thus, here we propose a novel approach to the behavioral testing of the threat superiority effect. We conducted two experiments using evolutionary relevant and modern real-life scenes (e.g., forest or street, respectively) as a background to improve ecological validity. Participants had to find different targets in different spatial positions (close to fovea or periphery) using a touch-screen monitor. In Experiment 1 participants had to find the two most often used exemplar of the evolutionary and modern threatening categories (snake and gun, respectively), or neutral objects of the same category. In Experiment 2 we used more exemplars of each category. All images used were controlled for possible confounding low-level visual features such as contrast, frequency, brightness, and image complexity. In Experiment 1, threatening targets were found faster compared to neutral cues irrespective of the evolutionary relevance. However, in Experiment 2, we did not find an advantage for threatening targets over neutral ones. In contrast, the type of background, and spatial position of the target only affected the detection of neutral targets. Our results might indicate that some stimuli indeed have an advantage in visual processing, however, they are not highlighted based on evolutionary relevance of negative valence alone, but rather through different associational mechanisms.
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- Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of Pécs Medical School, Pécs, Hungary
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- Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of Pécs Medical School, Pécs, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
- Department of Neurology, University of Pécs Medical School, Pécs, Hungary
- MTA-PTE Clinical Neuroscience MR Research Group, Pécs, Hungary
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Roberts ID, Hutcherson CA. Affect and Decision Making: Insights and Predictions from Computational Models. Trends Cogn Sci 2019; 23:602-614. [PMID: 31104816 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Revised: 04/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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In recent years interest in integrating the affective and decision sciences has skyrocketed. Immense progress has been made, but the complexities of each field, which can multiply when combined, present a significant obstacle. A carefully defined framework for integration is needed. The shift towards computational modeling in decision science provides a powerful basis and a path forward, but one whose synergistic potential will only be fully realized by drawing on the theoretical richness of the affective sciences. Reviewing research using a popular computational model of choice (the drift diffusion model), we discuss how mapping concepts to parameters reduces conceptual ambiguity and reveals novel hypotheses.
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- Ian D Roberts
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Marketing, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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March DS, Gaertner L, Olson MA. On the Prioritized Processing of Threat in a Dual Implicit Process Model of Evaluation. PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/1047840x.2018.1435680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- David S. March
- Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
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- Xiaowen Xu
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- David S. March
- Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
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