Attentional Bias on Different Emotional Valence Information: Among College Students With Different Implicit Aggression

Ke ZHANG, Dajun ZHANG

Abstract


The study is a preliminary exploration on attentional bias among college students of different implicit aggression, by using different emotional valence pictures as experimental materials and dot-probe paradigm, as well as employing The Single Category Implicit Association Test which results was found being positively related to the self-reports of participants and also being consistent with the behavior of them. The experimental results show that attentional bias of college students in different implicit aggression do not be changed with the pictures of different emotional valence. But it is found that there is the significant difference between the Stimulus Onset Asynchrony and the participants of different implicit aggression during the experiments as well.


Keywords


Self/evaluative implicit aggression; The Single Category Implicit Association Test (SC-IAT); attentional bias; Dot-probe paradigm; Stimulus Onset Asynchrony (SOA)

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