Maoz Keren, Adler Amy B, Bliese Paul D, Sipos Maurice L, Quartana Phillip J, Bar-Haim Yair
a School of Psychological Sciences , Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel.
b Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience , Walter Reed Army Institute of Research , Silver Spring , MD , USA.
Cogn Emot. 2017 Nov;31(7):1453-1464. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1231663. Epub 2016 Sep 22.
This study explored attention and interpretation biases in processing facial expressions as correlates of theoretically distinct self-reported anger experience, expression, and control. Non-selected undergraduate students (N = 101) completed cognitive tasks measuring attention bias, interpretation bias, and Spielberger's State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI-2). Attention bias toward angry faces was associated with higher trait anger and anger expression and with lower anger control-in and anger control-out. The propensity to quickly interpret ambiguous faces as angry was associated with greater anger expression and its subcomponent of anger expression-out and with lower anger control-out. Interactions between attention and interpretation biases did not contribute to the prediction of any anger component suggesting that attention and interpretation biases may function as distinct mechanisms. Theoretical and possible clinical implications are discussed.
本研究探讨了在处理面部表情时的注意力和解释偏差，将其作为理论上不同的自我报告的愤怒体验、表达和控制的相关因素。非选择性的本科生（N = 101）完成了测量注意力偏差、解释偏差和斯皮尔伯格状态-特质愤怒表达量表（STAXI-2）的认知任务。对愤怒面孔的注意力偏差与更高的特质愤怒和愤怒表达相关，与更低的愤怒内控和愤怒外控相关。将模棱两可的面孔迅速解释为愤怒的倾向与更大的愤怒表达及其愤怒外显子成分相关，与更低的愤怒外控相关。注意力偏差和解释偏差之间的交互作用对任何愤怒成分的预测均无贡献，这表明注意力偏差和解释偏差可能是不同的机制。文中讨论了理论和可能的临床意义。
