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ArticlePsychological research2019

Conflict modification: predictable production of congruent situations facilitates responding in a stroop task.

Constantin Schmidts, Anna Foerster, Wilfried Kunde

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Article in Psychological research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Constantin SchmidtsDepartment of Psychology III, University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, 97070, Würzburg, Germany. constantin.schmidts@uni-wuerzburg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0316-3388
Anna FoersterDepartment of Psychology III, University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, 97070, Würzburg, Germany.
Wilfried KundeDepartment of Psychology III, University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, 97070, Würzburg, Germany.

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Ku 1964/6-3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans cope with cognitive conflict in various ways, such as focusing on task-relevant instead of task-irrelevant information or avoiding situations where conflict is likely. These adaptations to conflict resemble those used to cope with negative affect. We examined whether situation modification, a strategy derived from the extended process model of emotion regulation, may influence responding in cognitive conflict tasks. This should be evident by a facilitation of actions that consistently modify situations towards congruent (positive) situations rather than to incongruent (negative) situations. In four experiments, participants modified stimuli in a color-word Stroop task towards congruent or incongruent stimuli of (un)predictable identity. A modification effect emerged insofar as participants were faster when they foreseeably produced congruent stimuli of predictable identity than when they produced incongruent stimuli or stimuli of unpredictable identity. Our results add to the body of evidence connecting affect and cognitive conflict, and reveal a constraint when using situation modification as a means to regulate cognitive conflict.

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Conflict, PsychologicalAdaptation, PsychologicalAdultAttentionColor PerceptionConditioning, PsychologicalCuesFemaleHumansMalePhotic StimulationReaction TimeStroop TestYoung Adult

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