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- Title
Does Pathological Internet Use Change Emotion Processing? An Event-Related Potential Study.
- Authors
Fanchang Kong; Yujuan Xia; Meiru Wang; Xiaoyao Li
- Abstract
The current study aimed to examine how pathological internet users (PIUs) process emotional stimuli on the internet and in real contexts. Twenty-one PIUs and 25 normal controls (NCs) were recruited based on their score on the Adolescent Pathological Internet Use Scale. They were asked to judge the valence of emotional words in a subliminal priming task. The results showed that participants responded more slowly to and had smaller P1 amplitudes for negative emotional words than for positive emotional words. Moreover, the late positive potential (LPP) amplitude for PIUs was smaller than that for NCs. Results showed a larger LPP of negative words in the internet-related priming context for NCs and the internet-unrelated priming context for PIUs. These findings indicate that pathological internet use affects emotional stimuli processing, especially in the late stage of cognitive processing.
- Subjects
EVOKED potentials (Electrophysiology); EMOTIONAL conditioning; INTERNET; SUBLIMINAL perception; EMOTIONS; INTERNET users
- Publication
Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 2022, Vol 18, Issue 3, p235
- ISSN
1895-1171
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5709/acp-0367-0