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Priming the trait category "hostility": The moderating role of trait anxiety.
- Source :
- Cognition & Emotion; Apr2007, Vol. 21 Issue 3, p577-595, 19p, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- Recent studies on affective priming with the naming task have revealed an influence of trait anxiety on the direction of affective priming effects (e.g., Berner & Maier, 2004). This moderating role of trait anxiety was further investigated in a study employing a conceptual priming task. After masked presentation of either hostile or neutral primes, participants performed a person judgment task. As expected, the direction of the hostility rating difference score, defined as the difference between hostility ratings of a target person in the hostility priming condition and in the neutral priming condition, changed from positive to negative with increasing levels of self-reported trait anxiety. The findings are interpreted in terms of salience-dependent overcorrection processes (Glaser & Banaji, 1999). Implications for our understanding of the cognitive functioning in high trait anxiety are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANXIETY
PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
HOSTILITY
EMOTIONS
MENTAL health
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02699931
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Cognition & Emotion
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 24826938
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930600652333