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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Affective Science

Background:

  • Self-referential processing bias enhances efficiency in cognitive tasks.
  • Emotional modulation of this bias is documented, but valence and arousal effects remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how emotional valence and arousal influence self-referential processing.
  • To determine if arousal selectively modulates self-referential processing.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Measured self-prioritization in varying mood states using a label-shape matching task.
  • Experiment 2: Used alerting cues to manipulate arousal levels during the task.
  • Experiment 3: Assessed the impact of alerting cues on reward processing to test selectivity.

Main Results:

  • Higher arousal levels correlated with stronger self-prioritization effects.
  • Emotional valence did not reliably affect self-prioritization.
  • Alerting cues increased self-prioritization but did not impact reward processing.

Conclusions:

  • Emotional arousal selectively modulates self-referential processing.
  • Arousal, rather than valence, is a key modulator of the self-referential processing bias.