Boettcher, Svenja and Dreisbach, Gesine (2014) Socially triggered negative affect impairs performance in simple cognitive tasks. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG, 78 (2). pp. 151-165. ISSN 0340-0727, 1430-2772
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The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of a social-evaluative context on simple cognitive tasks. While another person present in the room evaluated photographs of beautiful women or landscapes by beauty/attractiveness, female participants had to perform a combination of digit-categorization and spatial-compatibility task. There, before every trial, one of the women or landscape pictures was presented. Results showed selective performance impairments: the numerical distance effects increased on trials that followed women pictures but only, if another person concurrently evaluated these women pictures. In a second experiment, using the affective priming paradigm, the authors show that female pictures have a more negative connotation when they are concurrently evaluated by another person (social-evaluative context) than when they are not evaluated (neutral context). Together, these results suggest that the social-evaluative context triggers mild negative affective reactions to women pictures which then impair performance in an unrelated task.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | POSITIVE AFFECT; AUTOMATIC ACTIVATION; REWARD VALUE; STROOP TASK; MOOD; ATTRACTIVENESS; CONSEQUENCES; JUDGMENTS; GAZE; |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie II (Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2019 14:32 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Nov 2019 14:32 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/10621 |
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