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Optimism and Attentional Bias for Negative and Positive Stimuli
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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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“High-incentive states are characterized by positive attentional biases, approach-related motor behavior, and subjective states of anticipatory engagement, especially under novel conditions (Depue & Collins, 1999; Segerstrom, 2001; Vollstadt-Klein, Loeber, Richter, Kirsch, Bach et al., 2011).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Segerstrom, S. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Kentucky (US)
- Corresponding author
- 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
- 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
- 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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