Isaacowitz Derek M, Livingstone Kimberly M, Harris Julia A, Marcotte Stacy L
Department of Psychology.
Emotion. 2015 Apr;15(2):151-61. doi: 10.1037/emo0000037. Epub 2014 Dec 22.
Two studies are reported representing the first use of mobile eye tracking to study emotion regulation across adulthood. Past research on age differences in attentional deployment using stationary eye tracking has revealed older adults show relatively more positive looking and seem to benefit more moodwise from this looking pattern, compared with younger adults. However, these past studies have greatly constrained the stimuli participants can look at, despite real-world settings providing numerous possibilities for what we choose to look at. The authors therefore used mobile eye tracking to study age differences in attentional selection, as indicated by fixation patterns to stimuli of different valence freely chosen by the participant. In contrast to stationary eye-tracking studies of attentional deployment, Study 1 showed that younger and older individuals generally selected similar proportions of valenced stimuli, and attentional selection had similar effects on mood across age groups. Study 2 replicated this pattern with an adult life span sample including middle-aged individuals. Emotion regulation-relevant attention may thus differ depending on whether stimuli are freely chosen or not. (PsycINFO Database Record
报告了两项研究，这是首次使用移动眼动追踪技术来研究成年期的情绪调节。过去使用固定眼动追踪技术对注意力分配的年龄差异进行的研究表明，与年轻人相比，老年人表现出相对更多的积极注视，并且似乎从这种注视模式中在情绪方面受益更多。然而，尽管现实世界的场景为我们选择注视的内容提供了无数可能性，但过去的这些研究极大地限制了参与者能够注视的刺激物。因此，作者使用移动眼动追踪技术来研究注意力选择的年龄差异，这通过参与者自由选择的不同效价刺激物的注视模式来表明。与固定眼动追踪对注意力分配的研究不同，研究1表明，年轻人和老年人通常选择相似比例的效价刺激物，并且注意力选择在各年龄组对情绪有相似的影响。研究2在包括中年个体的成年寿命样本中重复了这一模式。因此，与情绪调节相关的注意力可能因刺激物是否是自由选择而有所不同。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
