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  • Cognitive Science
  • Neuroscience

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  • Traditional models linked affective valence (positive/negative) to cognitive scope.
  • The motivational intensity model proposes motivational intensity, not valence, drives cognitive scope.
  • Previous research focused on approach-positive and avoidance-negative states.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of anger, a negatively valenced approach-motivated state, on cognitive scope.
  • To test whether motivational intensity, rather than valence, explains cognitive scope narrowing.
  • To clarify the role of approach and avoidance motivation in emotional effects on cognition.

Main Methods:

  • Examined attentional scope using anger induction (Study 1).
  • Assessed trait approach motivation in relation to attentional narrowing (Studies 2-3).
  • Investigated conceptual categorization scope with anger (Study 4).

Main Results:

  • Anger narrowed attentional scope compared to a neutral state.
  • Attentional narrowing due to anger was comparable to high approach-positive affects.
  • Anger narrowed conceptual categorization, linked to approach motivation towards anger stimuli.

Conclusions:

  • Anger, as an approach-motivated negative affect, narrows both perceptual and conceptual cognitive scope.
  • Findings support the motivational intensity model, positing intensity as the key driver of cognitive scope narrowing.
  • This research extends the model's applicability to approach-motivated negative emotions.