| Socially triggered negative affect impairs performance in simple cognitive tasks. | |
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PMID: 23423348 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of a social-evaluative context on simple cognitive tasks. While another person present in the room evaluated photographs of beautiful women or landscapes by beauty/attractiveness, female participants had to perform a combination of digit-categorization and spatial-compatibility task. There, before every trial, one of the women or landscape pictures was presented. Results showed selective performance impairments: the numerical distance effects increased on trials that followed women pictures but only, if another person concurrently evaluated these women pictures. In a second experiment, using the affective priming paradigm, the authors show that female pictures have a more negative connotation when they are concurrently evaluated by another person (social-evaluative context) than when they are not evaluated (neutral context). Together, these results suggest that the social-evaluative context triggers mild negative affective reactions to women pictures which then impair performance in an unrelated task. |
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Svenja Böttcher; Gesine Dreisbach |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2013-2-20 |
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Title: Psychological research Volume: - ISSN: 1430-2772 ISO Abbreviation: Psychol Res Publication Date: 2013 Feb |
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Created Date: 2013-2-20 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0435062 Medline TA: Psychol Res Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Psychology, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany, mail@svenjaboettcher.de. |
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