ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Let Me Make You Happy, and I'll Tell You How You Look Around: Using an Approach-Avoidance Task as an Embodied Emotion Prime in a Free-Viewing Task.
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- Exploring Brain Dynamics Within the Approach-Avoidance Bias.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Temporal dynamics in attentional bias toward shopping cues among problematic online shoppers.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Approach-Avoidance Bias in Virtual and Real-World Simulations: Insights from a Systematic Review of Experimental Setups.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- The effect of pleasurable emotions on weight perception.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Feeling good, approaching the positive.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Behavioural approach-avoidance tendencies among individuals with elevated blood pressure.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Evidence for the embodiment of the automatic approach bias.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The embodied approach of human cognition suggests that concepts are deeply dependent upon and constrained by an agent's physical body's characteristics, such as performed body movements. In this study, we attempted to broaden previous research on emotional priming, investigating the interaction of emotions and visual exploration. We used the joystick-based approach-avoidance task to influence the emotional states of participants, and subsequently, we presented pictures of news web pages on a computer screen and measured participant's eye movements. As a result, the number of fixations on images increased, the total dwell time increased, and the average saccade length from outside of the images toward the images decreased after the bodily congruent priming phase. The combination of these effects suggests increased attention to web pages' image content after the participants performed bodily congruent actions in the priming phase. Thus, congruent bodily interaction with images in the priming phase fosters visual interaction in the subsequent exploration phase.
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