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Affective Influence on Context-Specific Proportion Congruent (CSPC) Effect
Jinhui Zhang1, Andrea Kiesel1, David Dignath1
11 Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany.
Experimental Psychology
|February 20, 2019
Summary
Affective contexts did not significantly alter the context-specific proportion congruent (CSPC) effect, which describes how trial congruency influences cognitive processing. This suggests emotions do not modulate this specific cognitive context effect.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Affective Neuroscience
Background:
- The context-specific proportion congruent (CSPC) effect demonstrates that cognitive processing is influenced by the proportion of congruent versus incongruent trials within a given context.
- Previous research has not fully explored the role of affective stimuli in modulating such context-dependent cognitive effects.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate whether affective context influences the CSPC effect.
- To determine if general affective valence or specific emotional valence (anger vs. happiness) modulates the CSPC effect.
Main Methods:
- Participants completed a Flanker task with either neutral or affective faces as context stimuli.
- The association between mostly incongruent trials and context stimuli varied across groups (neutral vs. affective faces, angry vs. happy faces).
- CSPC effects were compared between neutral and affective context groups, and within the affective group based on valence.
Main Results:
- No statistically significant modulation of the CSPC effect was found based on affective versus neutral contexts.
- Specific valence-proportion mappings (angry vs. happy faces) did not significantly alter the CSPC effect size.
Conclusions:
- Affective context, whether general or valence-specific, does not appear to significantly modulate the context-specific proportion congruent effect.
- Further research may be needed to explore other mechanisms or types of affective stimuli that could influence this cognitive phenomenon.
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