The Effect of Automatic vs. Refl ective Emotions on Cognitive Control in Antisaccade Tasks and the Emotional Stroop Test

• Authors: Kamil K. Imbir , Maria T. Jarymowicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article presents two studies based on the assumption that the effectiveness of cognitive control depends on the subject’s type of emotional state. Inhibitory control is taken into account, as the basic determinant of the antisaccade reactions and the emotional Stroop effect. The studies deal with differentiation of emotions on the basis of their origin: automatic (due to primary affective reactions) vs. refl ective (due to deliberative evaluation). According to the main assumption, automatic emotions are diffusive, and decrease the effectiveness of cognitive control. The hypothesis predicted that performance level of both the Antisaccade Task and the Emotional Stroop Test would be lower in the automaticemotion eliciting condition than in the refl ective-emotion eliciting condition. In two experimental studies, positive and negative (automatic vs. refl ective) emotions were elicited. The results support the predictions, regardless of the valence of emotions.

Keywords

EN

sensory vs. conceptual base of emotion; primary and secondary affect; affect diffusiveness; voluntary control

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 137-146

Contributors

author

Kamil K. Imbir

• Faculty of Applied Social Sciences,The Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education (ASE)
• College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw

author

Maria T. Jarymowicz

• Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw