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Attentional Bias among Individuals with Low Self-Esteem：an Event-Related Potential Study

LI Hai-jiang1, JIA Lei1, LUO Jun-long2, YANG Juan1, ZHANG Qing-lin1, LI Bing-bing1   

  1. 1. Faculty of Psychological Science, Southwest University, Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality(SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715;
    2. Education College, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234
  • Online:2013-01-15 Published:2013-01-15

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Abstract: Research has revealed that attentional biases are comprised of rapidly attentional orienting towards threat, difficulty in disengaging attention from threat. However, the neural basis of the component of attentioanl bias is still uncertain. In present study, a spatial cueing task was used to measure attentional biases because this task can differentiate rapidly attentional orienting and difficulty in disengagement. Event related potentials for targets were recorded when participants performed the spatial cueing task. Behavioral data showed that reaction time was longer under invalid condition than valid condition. ERP data revealed that LSE individuals showed more enhanced P1 and smaller N1 amplitude when the face cue was "angry" relative to "neutral" and "happy" on invalid trials. More increased P290-370 amplitude under invalid condition than valid condition. No other significant main or interaction effects were found. These findings suggested that attentional bias in LSE individuals reflect a difficulty in disengaging from threaten stimuli, rather than a rapidly attentional orienting for threaten stimuli.

Key words: self-esteem, attentional bias, attentional orienting, disengagement of attention, ERP

CLC Number: 

  • B844.3
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