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Kathryn Fackrell1, Mark Edmondson-Jones, Deborah A Hall.
Abstract
We re-examined a modified emotional Stroop task that included an additional colour-word alongside the emotional word, providing the response conflict of the traditional Stroop task. Negative emotionally salient (i.e. unpleasant') words are claimed to capture attention, producing a smaller Stroop effect for negative words compared to neutral words; this phenomenon is called the emotional dilution of the Stroop effect. To address previous limitations, this study compared negative words with lexically matched neutral words in a powered sample of 45 participants. Results demonstrated an emotional Stroop effect (slower colour-naming responses for negative words) and a traditional Stroop effect but not an emotional dilution of the Stroop effect. This finding is at odds with claims that other processing resources are diminished through the failure to disengage attention from emotional information. No matter how attention towards emotional information builds up over time, our findings indicate that attentional resources are not fully captured by negative words.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24223219 PMCID: PMC3819280 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080141
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Figure 1Examples of screen display.
(a) shows examples of the words (negative and neutral), colours and possible format used by Chajut et al (2010) [26]. (b) shows examples of the format used in this current study; the presentation location of the words (including counterbalance), the words (negative and neutral-matched) and colours.
Characteristics of word battery.
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| 2.70 (0.65) | 4.63 (5.63) | 11527.87 (16552.58) | 8.13 (1.79) | 5.11 (0.74) | 5.27 (0.99) |
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| 5.58 (0.59) | 5.11 (6.56) | 12550.61 (17616.97) | 8.55 (1.51) | 5.11 (0.08) | 5.06 (0.85) |
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| 5.46 (0.61) | 4.25 (5.5) | 31598.47 (76320.90)* | 8.87 (1.76)* | 5.20 (1.80) | 4.53 (0.59)* |
Data derived from ANEW database and ELP database for valence and neighbourhood density factors and the controlled lexical features of the words. Table reports the means (standard deviations). HAL: Hyperspace Analogue to Language norms [36]. *p<.05 significant difference between neutral-nonmatched and negative condition.
Response times.
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| Congruent | 825.01 | 307.39 | 37.06 | ― |
| Incongruent | 862.06 | 318.88 | |||
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| Congruent | 824.64 | 305.21 | 31.15 | 9.67 |
| Incongruent | 843.09 | 312.89 | |||
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| Congruent | 802.43 | 289.66 | 18.45 | 25.56 |
| Incongruent | 833.58 | 314.80 |
The mean RTs and standard deviations (SD) for the negative, neutral-matched and neutral-nonmatched carrier-word conditions, split according to colour-word congruence. The size of the SE and ESE is also reported.