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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology

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  • Evaluative conditioning (EC) involves changes in liking due to stimulus pairing.
  • Previous research shows inconsistent effects of secondary tasks on EC.
  • Dual-task interference in EC is theoretically significant but not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how processing demands of a secondary task influence evaluative conditioning.
  • To test the hypothesis that dual-task interference in EC is specific to stimulus processing similarity.

Main Methods:

  • Evaluative conditioning (EC) was examined under a demanding 3-back working memory task.
  • Orthographic (verbal) and pictorial (visuospatial) stimuli were used to manipulate processing demands.
  • EC occurrence was compared across conditions with similar and dissimilar processing demands.

Main Results:

  • The 3-back task interfered with EC only when the secondary task and conditioning stimuli imposed similar processing demands (verbal-verbal or visuospatial-visuospatial).
  • When processing demands were dissimilar (verbal-visuospatial or visuospatial-verbal), EC remained intact under dual-task conditions.
  • This suggests a modality-specific interference effect in dual-task EC.

Conclusions:

  • Dual-task interference in evaluative conditioning is not a general phenomenon but depends on the overlap in cognitive resource demands.
  • The findings reconcile inconsistent previous results by highlighting the role of processing similarity.
  • This research offers insights into the underlying cognitive mechanisms of EC and dual-tasking.