Sökning: "stimulus valence"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden stimulus valence.
1. Valence-Level Dependent Presentation-Order Effects in Preference Judgments
Sammanfattning : Reversal of the stimulus-presentation order often affects the outcome in paired stimulus comparison. Psychophysicists have found that the size and direction of the order effects depend on the compared stimuli’s magnitudes, but this magnitude dependence does not seem to have been recognized previously in cognitive research on preference judgment. LÄS MER
2. Processing Asymmetries of Emotionally Valenced Stimuli
Sammanfattning : The central phenomenon investigated concerns the valence-based process asymmetry found in several earlier studies (e.g. Pratto & John, 1991; Taylor, 1991), where negative stimuli seem to initiate more thorough processing than positive stimuli. This finding was consistent in the three empirical studies forming this dissertation. LÄS MER
3. Emotional facial processing in younger and older adults
Sammanfattning : There is evidence that older adults have difficulty processing negative but not positive facial expressions. This positivity effect among older adults is expressed in attention to as well as in memory and recognition of emotional faces. In the present thesis, effects of stimulus properties (i.e. LÄS MER
4. Biases in Visual Selective Attention : Trait Anxious Individuals Avert Their Gaze From Unpleasant Stimuli
Sammanfattning : Cognitive models of anxiety postulate that anxious individuals are inclined to pay more attention to negative than to positive emotional visual stimuli. The main aim of the present dissertation was to test this prediction, employing a measure of the direction of gaze. LÄS MER
5. The face of wrath : how facial emotion captures visual attention
Sammanfattning : We look at the things that matter to us. We may rest our eyes on things that attract us, stare at something horrifying, or glare at someone we dislike: things that affect us emotionally are also things that capture our visual attention. LÄS MER