The gaze of the optimist
The gaze of the optimist
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DOI：
10.1177/0146167204271599
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发表时间：
2005-03-01
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
Isaacowitz, DM
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作者：
Isaacowitz, DM
两项研究采用眼动追踪技术，调查了乐观主义者和悲观主义者对负面情绪刺激的注意偏好。在这两项研究中，乐观和悲观的大学生观看了三种类型的视觉刺激，同时跟踪了他们的眼球运动：皮肤癌（黑色素瘤）图像，匹配的示意性线条图和中性面孔。在第一项研究中，参与者被要求自然地观看图像，而在第二项研究中，一些参与者接受了相关操作。测量不同图像的注视时间百分比。乐观主义者对皮肤癌图像表现出选择性的忽视，即使在控制了对匹配的示意性线条图的注意力之后。在控制了神经质、情感、焦虑、相关性和感知变量的影响后，这种关系在两项研究中仍然显着。这些数据表明，乐观主义者在处理来自世界的信息时可能确实戴着“玫瑰色眼镜”。
Two studies used eye tracking to investigate the attentional preferences of optimists and pessimists to negative emotional stimuli. In both studies, optimistic and pessimistic college students viewed three types of visual stimuli while having their eye movements tracked: skin cancer (melanoma) images, matched schematic line drawings, and neutral faces. In the first study, participants were asked to view the images naturally, whereas in the second study, some participants received a relevance manipulation. Percentage of fixation time to the different images was measured. Optimists showed selective inattention to the skin cancer images, even after controlling for attention to matched schematic line drawings. This relationship remained significant in both studies after controlling for the effects of neuroticism, affect, anxiety, relevance, and perceptual variables. These data suggest that optimists may indeed wear "rose-colored glasses" in their processing of information from the world.