Attention Drives Emotion: Voluntary Visual Attention Increases Perceived Emotional Intensity
Attention Drives Emotion: Voluntary Visual Attention Increases Perceived Emotional Intensity
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797619844231
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发表时间：
2019-06-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Van Boven, Leaf
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作者：
Mrkva, Kellen;Westfall, Jacob;Van Boven, Leaf
注意力和情绪是基本的心理系统。众所周知，情绪会增强注意力。本文报道的三个实验（N = 235）证明了相反的因果方向：自愿的视觉注意增强感知的情绪。在实验1中，参与者在顺序搜索过程中反复将注意力集中在目标物体上。参与者随后感知到他们对目标物体的情绪反应比他们对控制物体的反应更强烈。实验2和实验3采用空间线索化的方法来操纵志愿性视觉注意。空间线索注意增加感知的情绪强度。参与者认为空间线索的对象比非线索的对象更强烈的情感，即使当参与者被要求在脑海中排练的非线索对象的名称。这表明，注意力的强化效应与更广泛的心理排练无关。在整个实验中，参加对象被认为是视觉上更独特的，这在统计上介导了注意力对情绪强度的影响。
Attention and emotion are fundamental psychological systems. It is well established that emotion intensifies attention. Three experiments reported here (N = 235) demonstrated the reversed causal direction: Voluntary visual attention intensifies perceived emotion. In Experiment 1, participants repeatedly directed attention toward a target object during sequential search. Participants subsequently perceived their emotional reactions to target objects as more intense than their reactions to control objects. Experiments 2 and 3 used a spatial-cuing procedure to manipulate voluntary visual attention. Spatially cued attention increased perceived emotional intensity. Participants perceived spatially cued objects as more emotionally intense than noncued objects even when participants were asked to mentally rehearse the name of noncued objects. This suggests that the intensifying effect of attention is independent of more extensive mental rehearsal. Across experiments, attended objects were perceived as more visually distinctive, which statistically mediated the effects of attention on emotional intensity.