ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
Looking While Unhappy: A Mood-Congruent Attention Bias Toward Sad Adult Faces in Children.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Effect of Acute Aerobic Exercise on Ocular Measures of Attention to Emotionally Expressive Faces.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2021Article
- Temporal Behavioral Parameters of On-Going Gaze Encounters in a Virtual Environment.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Vigilance-Avoidance Toward Negative Faces in Social Anxiety With and Without Comorbid Depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
A negative mood-congruent attention bias has been consistently observed, for example, in clinical studies on major depression. This bias is assumed to be dysfunctional in that it supports maintaining a sad mood, whereas a potentially adaptive role has largely been neglected. Previous experiments involving sad mood induction techniques found a negative mood-congruent attention bias specifically for young individuals, explained by an adaptive need for information transfer in the service of mood regulation. In the present study we investigated the attentional bias in typically developing children (aged 6-12 years) when happy and sad moods were induced. Crucially, we manipulated the age (adult vs. child) of the displayed pairs of facial expressions depicting sadness, anger, fear and happiness. The results indicate that sad children indeed exhibited a mood specific attention bias toward sad facial expressions. Additionally, this bias was more pronounced for adult faces. Results are discussed in the context of an information gain which should be stronger when looking at adult faces due to their more expansive life experience. These findings bear implications for both research methods and future interventions.
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