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Optimism and Attentional Bias for Negative and Positive Stimuli

Segerstrom, Suzanne C.·2001·Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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Optimism, or positive outcome expectancy, correlates with better psychological and physiological adjustment, in part because of conscious behavior such as coping. However, procedural, automatic, and unconscious processes also may affect adjustment. The emotional Stroop task was used to assess the relationships between optimism and unconscious attentional bias for positively valenced, negatively valenced, neutral current concern, and neutral control stimuli. Undergraduate students (n = 48) completed personality measures at the beginning of the semester and completed the Stroop task under separate cover. Optimism was associated with a greater attentional bias for positive stimuli relative to negative stimuli. Optimism also was associated with slower skin conductance response rates during negative stimuli. Unconscious attentional biases may contribute to the better adjustment associated with optimism.

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Authors: Segerstrom, S. C.
Affiliations: University of Kentucky (US)
Corresponding author: Segerstrom, Suzanne C.
ORCID: Segerstrom, Suzanne C.
Venue: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2001-10
Volume: 27
Issue: 10
Pages: 1334-1343
ISSN: 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
1552-7433
DOI: 10.1177/01461672012710009
OpenAlex: W1969094803
Cited by: 213
References: 60
Citations by year: 2026: 7 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 17
FWCI: 8.43
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords: optimism, attentional bias, emotional Stroop task, unconscious attention, outcome expectations, positive valence, negative valence, skin conductance response, emotional adjustment, automatic processes

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