ReviewAttention, perception & psychophysics2022
Don't look now! Emotion-induced blindness: The interplay between emotion and attention.
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- Self-Relevance Attenuates Emotion-Induced Blindness Across Individual, Relational, and Collective Levels.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- From attentional blink to emotional dysregulation: a study on the cognitive and emotional interactions in depression.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- IGAR: Indonesian government applications review for sentiment analysis dataset.Data in brief · 2026Article
- Affective distraction by emotional arousal during visual attention: a comparative study with young and older adults.Cognitive processing · 2026Article
- Angry facial expressions elicit a late attentional withdrawal.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Out of sight, out of mind: Spatial cueing reduces the attentional cost of emotional distractors in emotion-induced blindness.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Toward a new theory of couple functioning: a short overview of "Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Disgust-induced attentional blink at Lag3: a diagnostic and therapeutic approach to depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Association of neuroimaging measures with facial emotional processing in healthy adults: a task fMRI study.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Emotion-Induced Blindness Is Impervious to Working Memory Load.Affective science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Scientists have long been interested in understanding the influence of emotionally salient stimuli on attention and perception. One experimental paradigm that has shown great promise in demonstrating the effect of such stimuli is emotion-induced blindness. That is, when emotionally salient stimuli are presented in a rapid stream of stimuli, they produce impairments in the perception of task-relevant stimuli, even though they themselves are task irrelevant. This is known as emotion-induced blindness, and it is a profound and robust form of attentional bias. Here, we review the literature on emotion-induced blindness, such as identifying the types of stimuli that elicit it, and its temporal dynamics. We discuss the role of dimensional versus categorical approaches to emotion in relation to emotion-induced blindness. We also synthesize the work examining whether certain individuals, such as those high in anxiety versus psychopathy, succumb to emotion-induced blindness to different extents, and we discuss whether the deficit can be reduced or even abolished. We review the theoretical models that have been proposed to explain the phenomenon. Finally, we identify exciting questions for future research, and elucidate useful frameworks to guide future investigations.
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