Social comparison modulates reward-driven attentional capture
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It is well established that attention can be captured by task irrelevant and non-salient objects associated with value through reward learning. However, it is unknown whether social comparison influences reward-driven attentional capture. The present study created four social contexts to examine whether different social comparisons modulate the reward-driven capture of attention. The results showed that reward-driven attentional capture varied with different social comparison conditions. Most prominently, reward-driven attentional capture is dramatically reduced in the disadvantageous social comparison context, in which an individual is informed that the other participant is earning more monetary reward for performing the same task. These findings suggest that social comparison can affect the reward-driven capture of attention.
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In moments when action is planned and executed, higher performance expectancies may serve as a buffer or protection against responses that would detract from optimal performance, such as nonbeneficial alternate responses, off-task activity, or self-referential thinking.
“In the moments when action is planned and executed, higher performance expectancies may also serve as a buffer or protection against responses that would detract from optimal performance, such as nonbeneficial alternate responses, including off-task activity (Jiao et al., 2015;Zahodne, Nowinski, Gershon, & Manly, 2015) or self-referential thinking.”
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- Authors
- Jiao, J., Du, F., He, X., & Zhang, K.
- Affiliations
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Du, Feng
- ORCID
- Venue
- Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Published
- 2015-02-25
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1278-1284
- ISSN
- 1069-9384 (ISSN-L)
- 1531-5320
- OpenAlex
- W1993771889
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3
- FWCI
- 1.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Institutional Repository of Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (31470982, 31200766, KJZDEW-L04)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y4CX033008, KJZD‐EW‐L04)
- Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y4CX033008)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Keywords
- social comparison, attentional capture, reward learning, monetary rewards, social environment
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attention, Color Perception, Culture, Discrimination, Psychological, Female, Hierarchy, Social, Humans, Deception, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Random Allocation, Reward, Social Identification, Young Adult
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