Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, 1032 W. Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60660, USA.
J Exp Psychol Gen. 2012 Nov;141(4):595-600. doi: 10.1037/a0027709. Epub 2012 Mar 12.
The current research challenges the common view that positive affect and negative affect generate a broadened or narrowed attentional focus, respectively. Contrary to this view, two studies found that the link between affect and attentional focus as measured by a traditional flanker task (Study 1) and a modified flanker task (Study 2) reflects whatever focus is momentarily dominant. Further, in these studies when neither focus was dominant, the link between affect and attentional focus vanished. These results demonstrate that, like reward, positive affect and negative affect are not dedicated to a particular broadened or narrowed attentional scope but rather provide embodied information about the value of currently accessible attentional orientations.
当前的研究挑战了一种普遍观点，即积极情绪和消极情绪分别产生更广泛或更狭窄的注意力焦点。与这一观点相反，两项研究发现，传统的侧抑制任务（研究 1）和改良的侧抑制任务（研究 2）测量的情绪与注意力焦点之间的联系反映了当前占主导地位的任何焦点。此外，在这两项研究中，当没有任何焦点占主导地位时，情绪和注意力焦点之间的联系就消失了。这些结果表明，就像奖励一样，积极情绪和消极情绪并不专门针对特定的更广泛或更狭窄的注意力范围，而是提供了关于当前可访问注意力方向的价值的具体信息。
