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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 6/2022

26-10-2021 | Original Article

It is not always positive: emotional bias in young and older adults

Auteurs: Giada Viviani, Francesca De Luca, Gabriella Antonucci, Alla Yankouskaya, Anna Pecchinenda

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 6/2022

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Abstract

Healthy ageing has been associated with a bias toward positive information and greater psychological well-being. However, to what extent this positivity bias also applies to prioritizing positive information under emotional competition is unclear. Old and young adults performed a word-face interference task, in which they responded to the valence of positive and negative target-words while ignoring happy or angry distractor-faces that could be affectively congruent or incongruent. A control condition with scrambled neutral distractor-faces was also used. Findings showed small facilitation effects with faster responses when targets and distractors were affectively congruent and large interference effects with slower responses when targets and distractors were affectively incongruent compared to the control condition. Importantly, whereas for younger adults there was a similar pattern of interference from happy and angry distractor-faces, for older adults there was greater interference from angry distractor-faces. The present findings are discussed in the context of emotional bias literature.
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We thank an anonymous reviewer for pointing this out.
 
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Upon request of an anonymous reviewer, we analysed the log transformed RTs only for the control condition with a 2 by 2 ANOVA with Valence and Group to check whether older adults has faster RTs to positive words and young adults did not. This showed a statistically significant interaction F (1, 66) = 7.14, p = .0.009, ηp2 = 0.098. Post-hoc comparisons showed faster RTs to positive than to negative words for old t(33) = 4.36, p < 0.001 and for young adults t(33) = 2.08, p = 0.04.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
It is not always positive: emotional bias in young and older adults
Auteurs
Giada Viviani
Francesca De Luca
Gabriella Antonucci
Alla Yankouskaya
Anna Pecchinenda
Publicatiedatum
26-10-2021
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 6/2022
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01614-2

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