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- Title
The Self-relevance of Negative Stimuli Reduced the Inhibition of Return Effect for Depressed People.
- Authors
Yuki NISHIGUCHI; Yoshihiko TANNO
- Abstract
A previous study indicated that depressed people show a smaller inhibition of return effect (IOR) for negative stimuli in a spatial cueing task. According to Mogg and Bradley (2005), a depressive bias in attention is observed only when self-relevant negative stimuli are presented. To test this proposition, the present research compared the IOR of depressed people for negative trait adjectives and for other negative words. We found that depressed participants had a smaller IOR for trait adjectives than for other negative words. This result suggests that depressed individuals have difficulty in disengaging their attention from negative self-relevant stimuli.
- Subjects
REACTION time; DEPRESSED persons; AVERSIVE stimuli; CONDITIONED response; SELF-perception
- Publication
Japanese Journal of Personality / Pasonariti Kenkyu, 2012, Vol 21, Issue 1, p91
- ISSN
1348-8406
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2132/personality.21.91