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Jini Tae1, Rebeka C Almasi2, Rebecca B Weldon3
1The George Washington University, United States; Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea.
Brain and Cognition
|March 24, 2021
Summary
Detecting cognitive conflict may reduce positive emotional bias. Resolving this conflict, however, appears to eliminate negative effects, restoring emotional balance in perception.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Affective Science
- Neuroscience
Background:
- Affective priming influences emotional judgments.
- The Stroop task reveals cognitive conflict.
- Understanding conflict's impact on emotion is crucial.
Purpose of the Study:
- Investigate how cognitive conflict from a Stroop task affects subsequent emotional valence judgments.
- Examine the role of conflict detection versus resolution in modulating affective responses.
- Determine if resolving conflict restores emotional processing biases.
Main Methods:
- Utilized an affective priming paradigm with a color Stroop task as the prime and facial stimuli for emotion recognition.
- Manipulated prime congruency (congruent vs. incongruent) and participant task (passive viewing, congruency judgment, conventional Stroop).
- Measured response times to emotional targets to assess valence judgments.
Main Results:
- Passive viewing and congruency judgment tasks showed a positivity bias for congruent primes, which disappeared for incongruent primes.
- Performing the conventional Stroop task, thereby resolving conflict, eliminated the positivity bias regardless of prime congruency.
- Conflict detection, rather than resolution, appeared to interfere with positive affect or induce negative affect.
Conclusions:
- Cognitive conflict detection can disrupt or attenuate positive affective biases in perception.
- Resolving cognitive conflict neutralizes its negative impact on emotional valence judgments.
- The findings highlight the interplay between cognitive control and affective processing.
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