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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Social Psychology

Background:

Social-evaluative contexts can influence cognitive processes.
Previous research indicates that social presence affects performance on various tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how social evaluation impacts cognitive task performance.
To determine if social-evaluative context affects the perception of women's images.

Main Methods:

Female participants performed digit-categorization and spatial-compatibility tasks.
Image evaluation by another person created a social-evaluative context.
Affective priming paradigm used to assess image connotations.

Main Results:

Cognitive task performance decreased following the presentation of women's pictures during social evaluation.
Numerical distance effects increased on trials after viewing women's pictures under social evaluation.
Women's pictures were perceived more negatively in a social-evaluative context compared to a neutral context.

Conclusions:

Social-evaluative contexts can induce negative affective responses to women's images.
These negative affective reactions can impair performance on unrelated cognitive tasks.
The study highlights the interplay between social perception and cognitive function.