Automatic vigilance
The attention-grabbing power of negative social information
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6203830 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Felicia Pratto (0000-0002-4547-2197), Oliver P John (0000-0003-0171-0971) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 380-391 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.61.3.380 |
| PMID | 1941510 |
| OpenAlex | W1990364059 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 412 |
| References cited | 19 |
One of the functions of automatic stimulus evaluation is to direct attention toward events that may have undesirable consequences for the perceiver's well-being. To test whether attentional resources are automatically directed away from an attended task to undesirable stimuli, Ss named the colors in which desirable and undesirable traits (e.g., honest, sadistic) appeared. Across 3 experiments, color-naming latencies were consistently longer for undesirable traits but did not differ within the desirable and undesirable categories. In Experiment 2, Ss also showed more incidental learning for undesirable traits, as predicted by the automatic vigilance (but not a perceptual defense) hypothesis. In Experiment 3, a diagnosticity (or base-rate) explanation of the vigilance effect was ruled out. The implications for deliberate processing in person perception and stereotyping are discussed
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Perception · Social perception · Stimulus (psychology) · Vigilance (psychology) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 412 |
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| Citations per year | 11,77 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2026 (36) |
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| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 364 |