Hoppitt, L and Mathews, A and Yiend, J and Mackintosh, B (2010) Cognitive mechanisms underlying the emotional effects of bias modification. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24 (3). pp. 312-325. DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1678
Hoppitt, L and Mathews, A and Yiend, J and Mackintosh, B (2010) Cognitive mechanisms underlying the emotional effects of bias modification. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24 (3). pp. 312-325. DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1678
Hoppitt, L and Mathews, A and Yiend, J and Mackintosh, B (2010) Cognitive mechanisms underlying the emotional effects of bias modification. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24 (3). pp. 312-325. DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1678
Abstract
In this study we assessed the cognitive mechanisms underlying the affective consequences of modifying emotional processing biases. During ?active? training participants selected either threatening or non-threatening meanings of emotionally ambiguous words, in contrast to ?passive? conditions in which participants read unambiguous words with equivalent valenced meanings. Both methods enhanced access to training-congruent primed emotional meanings, as assessed in a lexical decision task, although neither method displayed evidence of an induced interpretive bias as it is usually understood. However, consistent with previous research, the methods differed in their emotional consequences: Active training had greater effects on anxiety while viewing an accident video than did passive exposure. We interpret these results to suggest that both forms of training enhance priming of a valenced category, but only active conditions induce an implicit production rule to generate and/or select emotional meanings, and that it is this latter process that is critical to the modification of emotionality.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Health and Social Care, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2013 12:38 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 17:57 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/5647 |