The Effects of Affective Priming on Attentional Bias Among Individuals With Low Self-esteem

Abstract

Abstract: The present study included two experiments. In experiment 1, we used the pictures of faces displaying emotion as the experimental materials and adopted the dot-probe paradigm to study the attentional bias characteristics of subjects with high and low self-esteem. In experiment 2, we adopted the repetition priming paradigm and dot-probe paradigm to explore the effects of affective priming on attentional bias of individuals with low self-esteem. We can conclude that individuals with low self-esteem tend to pay more attention to angry faces, thus indicating a negative bias in low self-esteem subjects; Affective priming has a significant effect on attentional bias of low self-esteem individuals.Under positive affective priming condition, the negative bias of low self-esteem individuals is improved obviously.Under the condition of negative affective priming, the attentional bias effect of individuals with low self-esteem is stronger than that under controlled conditions.Negative affective priming increased the negative attentional bias of individuals with low self-esteem.

Key words: self-esteem, attentional bias, dot-probe task, affective priming

摘要： 研究通过两个实验来探讨情绪启动对低自尊个体注意偏向的影响。实验一采用点探测实验范式考察高、低自尊个体的注意偏向特点。实验二将重复启动范式和点探测实验范式相结合，进一步探讨情绪启动如何影响低自尊水平个体注意偏向。结果表明：低自尊个体对负性信息存在注意偏向；情绪启动对低自尊个体注意偏向有显著的影响。正性情绪启动对低自尊个体负性注意偏向有显著的调节作用，负性情绪启动加重了低自尊个体的负性注意偏向。

关键词: 自尊, 注意偏向, 点探测任务, 情绪启动

CLC Number:

B842.1

ZHANG Lihua, LI Na, LIU Jie, DAI Jiaxing. The Effects of Affective Priming on Attentional Bias Among Individuals With Low Self-esteem[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2018, 16(6): 763-770.

张丽华, 李娜, 刘婕, 代嘉幸. 情绪启动对低自尊个体注意偏向的影响[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2018, 16(6): 763-770.

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