Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Cogn Emot. 2011 Nov;25(7):1311-30; discussion 1331-8. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2011.596819. Epub 2011 Sep 21.
Woud, Becker, and Rinck (2008) asked participants to repeatedly push pictures of certain faces away and to pull pictures of other faces towards them using a joystick. Performance in a subsequent affective priming task showed that previously pulled faces evoked more positive implicit evaluations then previously pushed faces. We report five studies in which we failed to find consistent evidence for the effect of approach-avoid training on implicit evaluations. We also failed to reproduce the effect reported by Woud et al. when reanalysing their data. An overall analysis that included our data, the data of Woud et al. and additional data provided by Woud and colleagues also did not reveal a significant effect of approach-avoid training on implicit evaluations. We conclude that the impact of approach-avoid training on implicit evaluations is subject to subtle boundary conditions.
沃德、贝克尔和林克（2008）要求参与者使用操纵杆反复将某些面孔的图片推开，并将其他面孔的图片拉向自己。在随后的情感启动任务中的表现表明，之前拉动的面孔比之前推动的面孔引起了更积极的内隐评价。我们报告了五项研究，在这些研究中，我们没有发现接近-回避训练对内隐评价的影响的一致证据。当重新分析沃德等人的数据时，我们也未能重现他们报告的效果。一项包括我们的数据、沃德等人的数据以及沃德及其同事提供的额外数据的综合分析也没有显示出接近-回避训练对内隐评价有显著影响。我们的结论是，接近-回避训练对内隐评价的影响受到微妙的边界条件的限制。
