Search for dissertations about: "stimulus valence"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words stimulus valence.

2. 1. Valence-Level Dependent Presentation-Order Effects in Preference Judgments

   Author : Mats P. Englund; Åke Hellström; William M. Petrusic; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Preference judgment; order effects; stimulus valence; sensation weighting; feature matching; comparison direction; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

   Abstract : Reversal of the stimulus-presentation order often affects the outcome in paired stimulus comparison. Psychophysicists have found that the size and direction of the order effects depend on the compared stimuli’s magnitudes, but this magnitude dependence does not seem to have been recognized previously in cognitive research on preference judgment. READ MORE

4. 2. Processing Asymmetries of Emotionally Valenced Stimuli

   Author : Mats Dahl; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; recollective experience; remember-know; memory; encoding; processing asymmetries; emotional words; emotional faces; affective pictures; emotion; affective information; Psykologi;

   Abstract : The central phenomenon investigated concerns the valence-based process asymmetry found in several earlier studies (e.g. Pratto & John, 1991; Taylor, 1991), where negative stimuli seem to initiate more thorough processing than positive stimuli. This finding was consistent in the three empirical studies forming this dissertation. READ MORE

5. 3. Emotional facial processing in younger and older adults

   Author : Joakim Svärd; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : There is evidence that older adults have difficulty processing negative but not positive facial expressions. This positivity effect among older adults is expressed in attention to as well as in memory and recognition of emotional faces. In the present thesis, effects of stimulus properties (i.e. READ MORE

6. 4. Biases in Visual Selective Attention : Trait Anxious Individuals Avert Their Gaze From Unpleasant Stimuli

   Author : Jean-Christophe Rohner; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; eye-movements; attentional biases; Anxiety; attention; Psykologi;

   Abstract : Cognitive models of anxiety postulate that anxious individuals are inclined to pay more attention to negative than to positive emotional visual stimuli. The main aim of the present dissertation was to test this prediction, employing a measure of the direction of gaze. READ MORE

7. 5. The face of wrath : how facial emotion captures visual attention

   Author : Daniel Lundqvist; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Faces; Facial expressions; Schematic faces; Threatening faces; Emotion; Semantic differential scales; Activity; Potency; Negative Evaluation; Attention; Visual search;

   Abstract : We look at the things that matter to us. We may rest our eyes on things that attract us, stare at something horrifying, or glare at someone we dislike: things that affect us emotionally are also things that capture our visual attention. READ MORE