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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Attentional bias is often measured using the dot-probe task.
  • Behavioral measures of attentional bias show poor reliability.
  • Event-related potential (ERP) studies suggest reliable attention to emotional stimuli.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the reliability of attentional bias measures.
  • To test the hypothesis that attention capture is brief but can be redistributed.
  • To examine the effect of stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) on reliability.

Main Methods:

  • Dot-probe task with angry and neutral faces.
  • Manipulation of stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) between cue and probe.
  • Assessment of internal reliability of behavioral bias measures.

Main Results:

  • Behavioral bias reliability was significantly greater than zero only at the shortest SOA (100 ms).
  • Reliability decreased significantly with longer SOAs (300, 500, 900 ms).
  • Even the shortest SOA yielded poor reliability estimates.

Conclusions:

  • Initial attentional capture by emotional stimuli is reliable but transient.
  • The reliability of behavioral attentional bias measures diminishes rapidly with increasing SOA.
  • Current dot-probe task measures are insufficient for assessing individual differences in attentional bias.