Experimental single case studies on automatic processing of emotion were carried on a sample of people with an anxiety disorder. Participants were required to take three Audio Visual Entrainment (AVE) sessions to test...Experimental single case studies on automatic processing of emotion were carried on a sample of people with an anxiety disorder. Participants were required to take three Audio Visual Entrainment (AVE) sessions to test for anxiety reduction as proclaimed by some academic research. Explicit reports were measured as well as pre-attentive bias to stressing information by using affective priming studies before and after AVE intervention. Group analysis shows that indeed AVEs program applications do reduce anxiety producing significant changes over explicit reports on anxiety levels and automatic processing bias of emotion. However, case by case analysis of six anxious participants shows that even when all of the participants report emotional improvement after intervention, not all of them reduce or eliminate dysfunctional bias to stressing information. Rather, they show a variety of processing styles due to intervention and some of them show no change at all. Implications of this differential effect to clinical sets are discussed.展开更多
Previous studies have explored effects of the conscious processing of emotional information on the interaction between emotion and executive control.However,the conscious processing of emotional information introduces...Previous studies have explored effects of the conscious processing of emotional information on the interaction between emotion and executive control.However,the conscious processing of emotional information introduces“defensive responses,”which might limit the emotional effect.To avoid the limitations,this study aimed to explore the effect of automatic emotional processing on response inhibition among heroin abstainers.Individuals experiencing heroin withdrawal symptoms are not entirely exempt from the influence of drugs,and it is challenging to find heroin addicts in practice.Therefore,similar to previous studies,we recruited heroin abstainers in this study.In Experiment 1,for the heroin abstainers group,30 participants meeting the inclusion criteria were recruited from a compulsory isolated detoxification center,whereas 30 age-and education-matched participants were recruited from the community as the control group.These participants completed the Go/No-Go task by supraliminal emotional priming.In Experiment 2,the heroin abstainers group comprised 33 eligible participants and control group comprised 33 eligible participants.These participants completed the Go/No-Go task by subliminal emotional priming.We compared the participants’rates of commission errors in the Go/No-Go tasks.The rate of commission errors was lowest upon the activation of positive emotion.Moreover,under subliminal emotional priming,the rate of commission errors for the heroin abstainers group was significantly lower than that for the control group.However,regarding supraliminal emotional priming,there was no significant difference between the rates of commission errors for the two groups.These results suggest automatic positive emotional processing can enhance response inhibition among heroin abstainers.Moreover,under subliminal emotional priming,heroin abstainers had more enhanced response inhibition than the control groups.This study plays a significant role in understanding the effect of automatic emotional processing on response inhibition among drug addicts.This study also provides a theoretical basis for ensuring enhanced response inhibition among drug addicts.展开更多
文摘Experimental single case studies on automatic processing of emotion were carried on a sample of people with an anxiety disorder. Participants were required to take three Audio Visual Entrainment (AVE) sessions to test for anxiety reduction as proclaimed by some academic research. Explicit reports were measured as well as pre-attentive bias to stressing information by using affective priming studies before and after AVE intervention. Group analysis shows that indeed AVEs program applications do reduce anxiety producing significant changes over explicit reports on anxiety levels and automatic processing bias of emotion. However, case by case analysis of six anxious participants shows that even when all of the participants report emotional improvement after intervention, not all of them reduce or eliminate dysfunctional bias to stressing information. Rather, they show a variety of processing styles due to intervention and some of them show no change at all. Implications of this differential effect to clinical sets are discussed.
基金"Innovation star"project for excellent Postgraduates,Grant/Award Number:2021CXZX-177National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:31660276,31960185。
文摘Previous studies have explored effects of the conscious processing of emotional information on the interaction between emotion and executive control.However,the conscious processing of emotional information introduces“defensive responses,”which might limit the emotional effect.To avoid the limitations,this study aimed to explore the effect of automatic emotional processing on response inhibition among heroin abstainers.Individuals experiencing heroin withdrawal symptoms are not entirely exempt from the influence of drugs,and it is challenging to find heroin addicts in practice.Therefore,similar to previous studies,we recruited heroin abstainers in this study.In Experiment 1,for the heroin abstainers group,30 participants meeting the inclusion criteria were recruited from a compulsory isolated detoxification center,whereas 30 age-and education-matched participants were recruited from the community as the control group.These participants completed the Go/No-Go task by supraliminal emotional priming.In Experiment 2,the heroin abstainers group comprised 33 eligible participants and control group comprised 33 eligible participants.These participants completed the Go/No-Go task by subliminal emotional priming.We compared the participants’rates of commission errors in the Go/No-Go tasks.The rate of commission errors was lowest upon the activation of positive emotion.Moreover,under subliminal emotional priming,the rate of commission errors for the heroin abstainers group was significantly lower than that for the control group.However,regarding supraliminal emotional priming,there was no significant difference between the rates of commission errors for the two groups.These results suggest automatic positive emotional processing can enhance response inhibition among heroin abstainers.Moreover,under subliminal emotional priming,heroin abstainers had more enhanced response inhibition than the control groups.This study plays a significant role in understanding the effect of automatic emotional processing on response inhibition among drug addicts.This study also provides a theoretical basis for ensuring enhanced response inhibition among drug addicts.
