Stimulus conflict triggers behavioral avoidance.
According to a recent extension of the conflict-monitoring theory, conflict between two competing response tendencies is registered as an aversive event and triggers a motivation to avoid the source of conflict. In the present study, we tested this assumption. Over five experiments, we examined whet...
| Publicado en: | Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 822 - 837 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2015
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=110839633&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 110839633 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15307026 NA4 jtl: Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience issn: 15307026 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2015 vid: 15 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 110839633 10.3758/s13415-015-0355-6 110839633 ppf: 822 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Stimulus conflict triggers behavioral avoidance. aug: au: Dignath, David Eder, Andreas B. affil: Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 10 97070 Würzburg Germany sug: ab: According to a recent extension of the conflict-monitoring theory, conflict between two competing response tendencies is registered as an aversive event and triggers a motivation to avoid the source of conflict. In the present study, we tested this assumption. Over five experiments, we examined whether conflict is associated with an avoidance motivation and whether stimulus conflict or response conflict triggers an avoidance tendency. Participants first performed a color Stroop task. In a subsequent motivation test, participants responded to Stroop stimuli with approach- and avoidance-related lever movements. These results showed that Stroop-conflict stimuli increased the frequency of avoidance responses in a free-choice motivation test, and also increased the speed of avoidance relative to approach responses in a forced-choice test. High and low proportions of response conflict in the Stroop task had no effect on avoidance in the motivation test. Avoidance of conflict was, however, obtained even with new conflict stimuli that had not been presented before in a Stroop task, and when the Stroop task was replaced with an unrelated filler task. Taken together, these results suggest that stimulus conflict is sufficient to trigger avoidance. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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