Encouraging the perceptual underdog: positive affective priming of nonpreferred local-global processes.

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Two experiments examined affective priming of global and local perception. Participants attempted to detect a target that might be present as either a global or a local shape. Verbal primes were used in 1 experiment, and pictorial primes were used in the other. In both experiments, positive primes led to improved performance on the nonpreferred dimension. For participants exhibiting global precedence, detection of local targets was significantly improved, whereas for participants exhibiting local precedence, detection of global targets was significantly improved. The results provide support for an interpretation of the effects of positive affective priming in terms of increased perceptual flexibility. (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved.

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Author/s: Tan, Hannah K (HK); Jones, Gregory V (GV); Watson, Derrick G (DG);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal: Emotion (Washington, D.C.) (Emotion), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Apr; vol 9 (issue 2) : pp 238-47

Dates: Created 2009/04/07; Completed 2009/06/16;

PMID: 19348535, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 6/16/2009, IMS Date: 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00)

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