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Attentional effects of self-affirmation in response to graphic antismoking images.

Author(s) -

Loes T. E. Kessels,

Peter R. Harris,

Robert A. C. Ruiter,

William M. P. Klein

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

health psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.548

H-Index - 164

eISSN - 1930-7810

pISSN - 0278-6133

DOI - 10.1037/hea0000366

Subject(s) - psycinfo , psychology , self affirmation , attentional bias , cognition , cognitive psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , medline , neuroscience , political science , law

Self-affirmation has been shown to reduce defensive responding to threatening information. However, little is known about the cognitive and attentional processes underlying these effects. In the current eye-movement study, the authors explored whether self-affirmation affects attention allocation (i.e., number of fixations) among those for whom a threatening health message is self-relevant.

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