Avoidant Attachment and the Processing of Emotion Information: Selective Attention or Cognitive Avoidance?

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panoraia Andriopoulos ◽  
Konstantinos Kafetsios
Keyword(s):  
Stroop Task ◽  
Emotional Stroop ◽  
Cognitive Avoidance ◽  
Activation Condition ◽  
Emotional Stroop Task ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
Attachment Orientation ◽  
Schema Activation ◽  
Dimensional Assessment ◽  
No Activation

The present study investigated avoidant attachment orientation differences in emotion processing biases under different conditions of attachment schema activation (subliminal, supraliminal or no-activation). After completing a dimensional assessment of adult attachment, 97 participants were randomly assigned to one of the three activating conditions and subsequently performed an Emotional Stroop Task including attachment and emotion positive and negative words. Consistently, in the supraliminal activation condition, avoidant participants demonstrated higher interference of attachment-related and emotional stimuli compared to the no-activation condition; they focused on the task-relevant processes (colour naming), ignoring the semantic meaning of the words (lower interference). The results of the present study suggest that avoidant individuals use both pre-emptive and post-emptive strategies under different activating conditions in the processing of emotion information. The results also highlight interpretation of latencies in the Emotional Stroop Task for avoidant participants.

Fast and Slow effects in an Emotional Stroop Task and Anxiety

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Z. Marrington ◽  
Georgina A. Tolan ◽  
Xochitl De La Piedad Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Stroop Task ◽  
Emotional Stroop ◽  
Emotional Stroop Task

Assessment of Secondary Traumatization with an Emotional Stroop Task

1994 ◽  
Vol 78 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1274-1274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Motta ◽  
John M Suozzi ◽  
Jamie M. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Stroop Task ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Emotional Stroop ◽  
Secondary Traumatization ◽  
Emotional Stroop Task

Scores on an emotional Stroop task discriminated secondary traumatization effects in 9 adult children of veterans while standard trauma measures did not.

The effects of emotionality and lexical category on L2 word processing in different tasks: Evidence from late Chinese–English bilinguals

2021 ◽  
pp. 174702182110418
Author(s):  
Xiaogen Liao ◽  
Chuanbin Ni
Keyword(s):  
Stroop Task ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
English Word ◽  
Task Type ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Emotional Stroop ◽  
Emotional Words ◽  
Emotional Stroop Task ◽  
Lexical Categories

Although it has been well established that emotional content influences language comprehension, the effects of emotionality on L2 (second language: English) word processing require further clarification. Notably, most previous studies unsystematically mixed words of different lexical categories, although they often showed processing differences. Here, using the same set of tightly matched negative, positive, and neutral words across three lexical categories (i.e., nouns, verbs, adjectives), we examined the effects of emotionality and lexical category on L2 word processing by conducting three experiments. In these experiments, three groups of late Chinese–English bilinguals performed three tasks: the emotional Stroop task (Experiment 1), the lexical decision task (Experiment 2), and the emotional categorisation task (Experiment 3), respectively. Overall, our data suggested that emotionality and lexical category exerted no influence on L2 word processing in the emotional Stroop task, but acted interactively to influence it in the other two tasks. The results evidenced that the processing of L2 emotional words was sensitive to task type. Therefore, we conclude that future research on L2 word processing should fully consider the emotionality, lexical category, and task type.

scholarly journals Measuring Deviant Sexual Interest in Adolescents Using the Emotional Stroop Task

Sexual Abuse ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 450-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley A. Price ◽  
Anthony R. Beech ◽  
Ian Mitchell ◽  
Glyn W. Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Stroop Task ◽  
Sexual Interest ◽  
Emotional Stroop ◽  
Emotional Stroop Task ◽  
Deviant Sexual Interest

scholarly journals Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder exhibit altered emotional processing and attentional control during an emotional Stroop task

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (11) ◽  
pp. 2017-2027 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Khanna ◽  
A. S. Badura-Brack ◽  
T. J. McDermott ◽  
C. M. Embury ◽  
A. I. Wiesman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stroop Task ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Attention Allocation ◽  
Emotional Stroop ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Emotional Stroop Task ◽  
Post Traumatic

BackgroundPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often associated with attention allocation and emotional regulation difficulties, but the brain dynamics underlying these deficits are unknown. The emotional Stroop task (EST) is an ideal means to monitor these difficulties, because participants are asked to attend to non-emotional aspects of the stimuli. In this study, we used magnetoencephalography (MEG) and the EST to monitor attention allocation and emotional regulation during the processing of emotionally charged stimuli in combat veterans with and without PTSD.MethodA total of 31 veterans with PTSD and 20 without PTSD performed the EST during MEG. Three categories of stimuli were used, including combat-related, generally threatening and neutral words. MEG data were imaged in the time-frequency domain and the network dynamics were probed for differences in processing threatening and non-threatening words.ResultsBehaviorally, veterans with PTSD were significantly slower in responding to combat-related relative to neutral and generally threatening words. Veterans without PTSD exhibited no significant differences in responding to the three different word types. Neurophysiologically, we found a significant three-way interaction between group, word type and time period across multiple brain regions. Follow-up testing indicated stronger theta-frequency (4–8 Hz) responses in the right ventral prefrontal (0.4–0.8 s) and superior temporal cortices (0.6–0.8 s) of veterans without PTSD compared with those with PTSD during the processing of combat-related words.ConclusionsOur data indicated that veterans with PTSD exhibited deficits in attention allocation and emotional regulation when processing trauma cues, while those without PTSD were able to regulate emotion by directing attention away from threat.

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