Looking While Unhappy: A Mood-Congruent Attention Bias Toward Sad Adult Faces in Children

Looking While Unhappy: A Mood-Congruent Attention Bias Toward Sad Adult Faces in Children

A negative mood-congruent attention bias has been consistently observed, for example, in clinical studies on major depression. This bias is assumed to be dysfunctional in that it supports maintaining a sad mood, whereas a potentially adaptive role has largely been neglected. Previous experiments inv...

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Main Authors: Nicola Grossheinrich, Christine Firk, Martin Schulte-Rüther, Andreas von Leupoldt, Kerstin Konrad, Lynn Huestegge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
eye tracking
emotion regulation
mood induction
attention bias
major depression
adaptive role
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02577/full

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