Speirs Calandra, Belchev Zorry, Fernandez Amanda, Korol Stephanie, Sears Christopher
a Department of Psychology , University of Calgary , Canada.
Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn. 2018 Nov;25(6):928-957. doi: 10.1080/13825585.2017.1391168. Epub 2017 Oct 30.
Two experiments examined age differences in the effect of a sad mood induction (MI) on attention to emotional images. Younger and older adults viewed sets of four images while their eye gaze was tracked throughout an 8-s presentation. Images were viewed before and after a sad MI to assess the effect of a sad mood on attention to positive and negative scenes. Younger and older adults exhibited positively biased attention after the sad MI, significantly increasing their attention to positive images, with no evidence of an age difference in either experiment. A test of participants' recognition memory for the images indicated that the sad MI reduced memory accuracy for sad images for younger and older adults. The results suggest that heightened attention to positive images following a sad MI reflects an affect regulation strategy related to mood repair. The implications for theories of the positivity effect are discussed.
两项实验研究了悲伤情绪诱导（MI）对关注情感图像的影响中的年龄差异。年轻和年长成年人观看四组图像，在8秒的呈现过程中全程追踪他们的目光。在悲伤MI前后观看图像，以评估悲伤情绪对关注积极和消极场景的影响。悲伤MI后，年轻和年长成年人都表现出积极偏向的注意力，显著增加了对积极图像的关注，两项实验均未发现年龄差异的证据。对参与者对图像的识别记忆测试表明，悲伤MI降低了年轻和年长成年人对悲伤图像的记忆准确性。结果表明，悲伤MI后对积极图像的关注度提高反映了一种与情绪修复相关的情感调节策略。讨论了这些结果对积极效应理论的启示。
