Emotion regulation meets emotional attention
The influence of emotion suppression on emotional attention depends on the nature of the distracters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15408276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Vogt (0000-0002-3178-2805, Ghent University, corresponding author), Jan De Houwer (0000-0003-0488-5224, Ghent University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 840-845 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Emotion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1528-3542 • E-ISSN: 1931-1516 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0037399 |
| PMID | 25046243 |
| OpenAlex | W1993093989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Recent evidence has suggested a crucial role of people's current goals in attention to emotional information. This asks for research investigating how and what kinds of goals shape emotional attention. The present study investigated how the goal to suppress a negative emotional state influences attention to emotion-congruent events. After inducing disgust, we instructed participants to suppress all feelings of disgust during a subsequent dot probe task. Attention to disgusting images was modulated by the sort of distracter that was presented in parallel with disgusting imagery. When disgusting images were presented together with neutral images, emotion suppression was accompanied by a tendency to attend to disgusting images. However, when disgusting images were shown with positive images that allow coping with disgust (i.e., images representing cleanliness), attention tended away from disgusting images and toward images representing cleanliness. These findings show that emotion suppression influences the allocation of attention but that the successful avoidance of emotion-congruent events depends on the availability of effective distracters
Anger · Cognitive psychology · Coping (psychology · Disgust · Feeling · Negative emotion · Psychotherapist · Face Recognition and Perception · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |