ArticlePloS one2018
When conflict influences liking: The case of the Stroop task.
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- Revisiting the post-resolution positivity effect in conflict tasks: Meta-analytic and behavioral evidence for context-dependent affective valence of conflict resolution.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Pooled it
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- Effect of subclinical depression on moral judgment dilemmas: a process dissociation approach.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Cognitively demanding stimuli can acquire positive valence.Psychological research · 2022Article
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- The Stroop Task Influences Product Evaluations.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Conflict monitoring and the affective-signaling hypothesis-An integrative review.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2020Review
- The face of control: Corrugator supercilii tracks aversive conflict signals in the service of adaptive cognitive control.Psychophysiology · 2020Article
- Conflict-Elicited Negative Evaluations of Neutral Stimuli: Testing Overt Responses and Stimulus-Frequency Differences as Critical Side Conditions.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Research suggests that cognitive conflict is accompanied by a negative signal. Building on the demonstrated role of negative affect in attitude formation and change, the present research investigated whether the experience of cognitive conflict negatively influences subsequent evaluations of neutral stimuli. Relying on the emergence of conflict in the Stroop task, participants were presented with compatible (non-conflict) and incompatible (conflict) Stroop color words that were each followed by a neutral visual stimulus. In general, participants liked stimuli following incompatible Stroop words less than stimuli following compatible Stroop words. The results revealed similar compatibility effects in tasks in which participants actively responded to the Stroop words and in tasks in which they passively observed them. Furthermore, these effects emerged in offline and online measures of evaluation. Interestingly, the results also suggest that the compatibility effect on liking observed in the present research was to some degree driven by the positivity associated with the compatible Stroop words, and not just by the negativity associated with the incompatible Stroop words. We discuss the present findings in the context of how and when conflicting responses to events (such as in the Stroop task) can influence evaluations of stimuli associated with the conflicting events.
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