Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Cogn Emot. 2011 Apr;25(3):466-77. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2010.532613.
Prior evidence has shown that aversive emotional states are characterised by an attentional bias towards aversive events. The present study investigated whether aversive emotions also bias attention towards stimuli that represent means by which the emotion can be alleviated. We induced disgust by having participants touch fake disgusting objects. Participants in the control condition touched non-disgusting objects. The results of a subsequent dot-probe task revealed that attention was oriented to disgusting pictures irrespective of condition. However, participants in the disgust condition also oriented towards pictures representing cleanliness. These findings suggest that the deployment of attention in aversive emotional states is not purely stimulus driven but is also guided by the goal to alleviate this emotional state.
先前的证据表明，厌恶情绪的特点是对厌恶事件的注意力偏向。本研究探讨了厌恶情绪是否也会使注意力偏向于可以减轻这种情绪的刺激。我们通过让参与者触摸假的恶心物体来引起厌恶感。对照组的参与者触摸不恶心的物体。随后的点探测任务的结果表明，无论条件如何，注意力都被导向了恶心的图片。然而，厌恶情绪组的参与者也将注意力转向了代表清洁的图片。这些发现表明，在厌恶情绪状态下，注意力的分配不是纯粹由刺激驱动的，而是也受到减轻这种情绪状态的目标的引导。
