Psychological Development and Education ›› 2008, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (1): 43-48.

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SAge-Related and Gender Differences: Influence of Positive Emotions on Task Switching

WANG Yan-mei1,2, GUO De-jun1, FANG Ping1, HAN Xue-jun3, TANG Liping3, QU Jing3   

  1. 1. The Department of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100089;
    2. The Department of Psychology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062;
    3. Niu Lan Shan First Secondary School Shunyi, Beijing, 101300
  • Online:2008-01-15 Published:2008-01-15

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Abstract: Gender and age are always two important factors in emotion research.Some studies show that positive emotions promote cognitive flexibility.Task switching is the most important component of cognitive flexibility.This study investigated the impact of positive emotions on task switching among different grades and gender.A digital judgment task was administered to 52 undergraduates(18 male,34 female),36 high school students(19 male,17 female),45 middle school students(20 male,25 female) following brief presentation of emotional pictures.The task involved maintaining condition and switching condition.First,participants were trained to respond to target digit appearing in a prespecified color while ignoring distracter digit in a different color.Then participants were transferred to switching conditions.They had to respond to stimuli in a new color while distracters appeared in the previous target color.The results showed that for male students,positive emotions promoted task switching only in middle school.However,for female students,this promotion effect existed in all the grades.

Key words: positive emotions, task switching, gender, developmental

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  • B844.2
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