Attentional bias for positive emotional stimuli: A meta-analytic investigation.

E Pool, T Brosch, S Delplanque, D Sander - Psychological bulletin, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Despite an initial focus on negative threatening stimuli, researchers have more recently
expanded the investigation of attentional biases toward positive rewarding stimuli. The …

Brain mechanisms for emotional influences on perception and attention: What is magic and what is not

G Pourtois, A Schettino, P Vuilleumier - Biological psychology, 2013 - Elsevier
The rapid and efficient selection of emotionally salient or goal-relevant stimuli in the
environment is crucial for flexible and adaptive behaviors. Converging data from …

Changing behaviour: Increasing the effectiveness of workplace interventions in creating pro‐environmental behaviour change

KL Unsworth, A Dmitrieva… - Journal of Organizational …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There is a great deal of research outlining interventions to increase pro‐environmental
behaviour, many of which are aimed at employees. However, to date the results for these …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of affective information on working memory: A pair of meta-analytic reviews of behavioral and neuroimaging evidence.

S Schweizer, AB Satpute, S Atzil, AP Field… - Psychological …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Everyday life is defined by goal states that are continuously reprioritized based on available,
often affective information. To pursue these goals, individuals need to process and maintain …

Expectancy biases in fear and anxiety and their link to biases in attention

T Aue, H Okon-Singer - Clinical psychology review, 2015 - Elsevier
Healthy individuals often exhibit prioritized processing of aversive information, as
manifested in enhanced orientation of attention to threatening stimuli compared with neutral …

The momentary interplay of affect, attention bias, and expectancies as predictors of binge eating in the natural environment

KE Smith, TB Mason, A Juarascio… - … Journal of Eating …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Affect regulation, eating expectancies, and attention toward food‐related cues are
interrelated constructs that have been implicated in the maintenance of binge eating. While …

Competing for attentional priority: temporary goals versus threats.

J Vogt, J De Houwer, G Crombez, S Van Damme - Emotion, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Numerous studies have shown that attention is biased toward threatening events. More
recent evidence has also found attentional biases for stimuli that are relevant to the current …

Feeling and thinking: can theories of human motivation explain how EHR design impacts clinician burnout?

CR Weir, P Taber, T Taft, TJ Reese… - Journal of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The psychology of motivation can help us understand the impact of electronic health records
(EHRs) on clinician burnout both directly and indirectly. Informatics approaches to EHR …

Desire lies in the eyes: attention bias for chocolate is related to craving and self-endorsed eating permission

J Werthmann, A Roefs, C Nederkoorn, A Jansen - Appetite, 2013 - Elsevier
The present study tested the impact of experimentally manipulated perceived availability of
chocolate on attention for chocolate stimuli, momentary (state) craving for chocolate and …

Try to look on the bright side: Children and adults can (sometimes) override their tendency to prioritize negative faces.

KH Lagattuta, HJ Kramer - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
We used eye tracking to examine 4-to 10-year-olds' and adults'(N= 173) visual attention to
negative (anger, fear, sadness, disgust) and neutral faces when paired with happy faces in 2 …