Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, Free University of Tbilisi, 250 David Aghmashenebeli Allay, 0159, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Time, Interaction, and Self-Determination Group, Cognition, Action and Sustainability Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Cogn Process. 2021 May;22(2):333-338. doi: 10.1007/s10339-020-01007-0. Epub 2021 Jan 6.
In the present study, we investigated how positive mood affects the formation of time-based event expectancies. After positive or neutral mood inductions, participants performed a binary choice response task in which two target stimuli (circle and square) and two pre-target intervals (800 and 1600 ms) appeared equally often. One of the targets was paired with the short interval and the other target with the long interval in 90% of the trials. We found that participants from the positive and neutral groups showed markedly different behavioral patterns of time-based expectancy. The time-based expectancy was restricted to shorter intervals for the positive group and to longer intervals for the neutral group. We propose that positive mood increases attentional prioritization of information that is temporally closer to us.
在本研究中，我们探讨了积极情绪如何影响基于时间的事件预期的形成。在积极或中性的情绪诱导之后，参与者执行了一个二元选择反应任务，其中两个目标刺激（圆形和方形）和两个预目标间隔（800 和 1600 毫秒）等概率出现。在 90%的试验中，一个目标与短间隔配对，另一个目标与长间隔配对。我们发现，来自积极和中性组的参与者表现出基于时间的预期的明显不同的行为模式。基于时间的预期对积极组的限制在较短的间隔，对中性组的限制在较长的间隔。我们提出，积极的情绪会增加对我们时间上更接近的信息的注意力优先化。
