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Article Dans Une Revue Socioaffective Neuroscience and Psychology Année : 2011

Social identity-based motivation modulates attention bias toward negative information: an event-related brain potential study

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Research has demonstrated that people readily pay more attention to negative than to positive and/or neutral stimuli. However, evidence from recent studies indicated that such an attention bias to negative information is not obligatory but sensitive to various factors. Two experiments using intergroup evaluative tasks (Study 1: a gender-related groups evaluative task and Study 2: a minimal-related groups evaluative task) was conducted to determine whether motivation to strive for a positive social identity - a part of one's self-concept - drives attention toward affective stimuli. Using the P1 component of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) as a neural index of attention, we confirmed that attention bias toward negative stimuli is not mandatory but it can depend on a motivational focus on affective outcomes. Results showed that social identity-based motivation is likely to bias attention toward affectively incongruent information. Thereby, early onset processes - reflected by the P1 component - appeared susceptible to top-down attentional influences induced by the individual's motivation to strive for a positive social identity.
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hal-00617187 , version 1 (26-08-2011)

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Benoit Montalan, Alexis Boitout, Mathieu Veujoz, Arnaud Leleu, Raymonde Germain, et al.. Social identity-based motivation modulates attention bias toward negative information: an event-related brain potential study: Social identity, motivation and attention. Socioaffective Neuroscience and Psychology, 2011, 1, pp.1-15. ⟨10.3402/snp.v1i0.5892⟩. ⟨hal-00617187⟩
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