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Performing Lateralized Approach and Avoidance Behaviors: Effects on Perceptual, Affective and Confidence Judgments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2011

Vincent Dru  and
Joël Cretenet
Vincent Dru*
Affiliation:
UFR-STAPS, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives, Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre, La Défense, France
Joël Cretenet
Affiliation:
UFR-STAPS, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives, Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre, La Défense, France
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to: Vincent Dru, University of Paris Ouest, UFR STAPS, 200 av de la république, F-92001 Nanterre Cedex, France. E-mail: dru@u-paris10.fr
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Abstract

In recent work, we showed that the judgment of affective stimuli is influenced by the degree of congruence between apparently innate hemispheric dispositions (left hemisphere positive and approach, right hemisphere negative and avoidance), and the type of movement produced by the contralateral arm (flexion-approach; extension-avoidance). Incongruent movements (e.g., right arm extension) were associated with attenuation of affective valuations. In the present study, we replicated these results. We also assessed confidence in judgments as a function of stimulus valence and congruence and determined that confidence is maximal with congruent movements and highly positive or negative stimuli, suggesting that congruence effects on affective valuation could be mediated by confidence effects. However, in a second experiment, involving judgments regarding segmented lines, congruence effects were observed only for bisected lines, for which confidence was lowest. Thus, confidence does not provide a unifying explanation for congruence effects in the performance of these two tasks. (JINS, 2011, 17, 289–294)

Keywords

AsymmetryConfidenceEmotionJudgmentMotor congruenceMotivationValence
Type
Research Articles
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , 28 February 2011 , pp. 289 - 294
Copyright
Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 2010

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