Grol Maud, Koster Ernst H W, Bruyneel Lynn, De Raedt Rudi
Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000, Ghent, Belgium,
Psychol Res. 2014 Jul;78(4):566-73. doi: 10.1007/s00426-013-0508-6. Epub 2013 Aug 23.
Studies on cognitive effects of positive emotions have associated positive emotions to broadened attention. Given the widely investigated relationship between self-focused attention and mood, it is important to investigate the effect of positive mood on visuospatial attention for self-related information. We used a performance-based measure to assess fluctuations in attentional broadening from self-related contrasted to not-self-related information. In Experiment 1, we checked that the self-related versus not-self-related stimuli did not evoke differential attention effects in general. In Experiment 2, we manipulated mood and found that an increase in positive mood was associated with a relative broadening of attention for self-related information. These results suggest that the meaning of the target of attention provides an interesting dimension for further investigation into the relation between positive emotions and attentional broadening.
关于积极情绪认知效应的研究已将积极情绪与注意力拓宽联系起来。鉴于自我关注与情绪之间的关系已得到广泛研究，研究积极情绪对与自我相关信息的视觉空间注意力的影响具有重要意义。我们使用了一种基于表现的测量方法，以评估与非自我相关信息相比，自我相关信息在注意力拓宽方面的波动。在实验1中，我们验证了自我相关刺激与非自我相关刺激一般不会引发不同的注意力效应。在实验2中，我们对情绪进行了操控，发现积极情绪的增强与对自我相关信息注意力的相对拓宽有关。这些结果表明，注意力目标的意义为进一步研究积极情绪与注意力拓宽之间的关系提供了一个有趣的维度。
