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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021

Existential Threat: Uncovering Implicit Affect in Response to Terror Reminders in Soldiers.

Markus Quirin, Farhood Malekzad, Miguel Kazén, Udo Luckey, Hugo Kehr

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. 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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Markus QuirinTechnical University of Munich, Private Hochschule Göttingen, Bavaria, Germany.
Farhood MalekzadTechnical University of Munich, Private Hochschule Göttingen, Bavaria, Germany.
Miguel KazénInstitute of Psychology, Osnabrueck University, Osnabrück, Germany.
Udo LuckeyInstitute of Psychology, Osnabrueck University, Osnabrück, Germany.
Hugo KehrTechnical University of Munich, Private Hochschule Göttingen, Bavaria, Germany.

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Abstract

Psychological science has a hard time assessing affective processes of the individuals that they may not recognize or do not like to report on. Here, the authors used the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT; Quirin et al., 2009) to investigate whether reminders of an existential threat induce unpleasant implicit affect in soldiers waiting for their deployment to a country with high levels of terrorist threat, Afghanistan. As expected, relative to reminding participants of a television evening, implicit negative affect was higher and implicit positive affect was lower after reminding participants of terror acts performed in different cities. No significant effects were found in self-reports of negative or positive affect. Our findings suggest that reminders of existential threat can elicit implicit negative affect that individuals may not report on explicitly and thus, validate the IPANAT as an easily applicable measure in emotional contexts.

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Afghanistan crisisdeath awarenessfear of terrorismimplicit affectIPANAT

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PMCPMC8211763

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