Repetition blindness for emotion words: Exploring interactions between valence and arousal.

IF 1.1 4区心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale Pub Date : 2025-06-09 DOI:10.1037/cep0000383

Abby Spike, Dustin A Haraden, Tina M Sutton

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Abstract

Emotional information is treated differently than any other type of information and has a powerful impact on many cognitive processes, including attention. The aim of this study was to investigate how valence and arousal impact how we process words in sentences, as well as examine two theories of emotion, categorical negativity theory and the arousal hypothesis. Categorical negativity theory suggests that the valence of a word is what truly influences how emotional information receives attention, while the arousal hypothesis posits that the arousal level of a word determines the amount of attention it receives. In the current work, we used the rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task to investigate interactions between valence and arousal. The valence and arousal levels of positive and negative emotion words were manipulated within the context of full-sentence reading. Analyses revealed that all negative words, regardless of arousal level, produced the standard repetition blindness effect; however, positive words appeared to benefit from repetition. This interaction of valence and arousal suggests that a new theory is needed to accommodate evidence that both valence and arousal play a role in the attentional capture of emotion words. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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情绪词的重复盲视：效价与觉醒之间的相互作用。

情绪信息的处理方式与其他类型的信息不同，它对包括注意力在内的许多认知过程都有强大的影响。本研究的目的是探讨效价和唤醒如何影响我们在句子中处理单词，并检验两种情绪理论，直言否定理论和唤醒假说。绝对否定理论认为，一个词的效价是真正影响情感信息获得注意的因素，而唤醒假说认为，一个词的唤醒水平决定了它获得的注意数量。在目前的工作中，我们使用快速连续视觉呈现（RSVP）任务来研究价和觉醒之间的相互作用。在整句阅读情境下，对积极情绪词和消极情绪词的效价和唤醒水平进行了操纵。分析表明，所有消极词汇，无论唤醒程度如何，都会产生标准的重复盲视效应；然而，积极的词汇似乎从重复中受益。效价和唤醒的相互作用表明，需要一种新的理论来容纳效价和唤醒在情绪词的注意捕获中都起作用的证据。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

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期刊介绍： The Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology publishes original research papers that advance understanding of the field of experimental psychology, broadly considered. This includes, but is not restricted to, cognition, perception, motor performance, attention, memory, learning, language, decision making, development, comparative psychology, and neuroscience. The journal publishes - papers reporting empirical results that advance knowledge in a particular research area; - papers describing theoretical, methodological, or conceptual advances that are relevant to the interpretation of empirical evidence in the field; - brief reports (less than 2,500 words for the main text) that describe new results or analyses with clear theoretical or methodological import.