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affect-biased attention
Also known as: affective biased attention
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Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org 10 facts
claimTodd et al. (2012) propose that affective biased attention operates before conscious cognitive reappraisal or suppression strategies, which suggests poor feedback from the Experiential Self-specifying (EES) network and a subsequent prioritization of overlearned habitual responses.
claimTodd et al. (2012) suggest that inadequate integration between self-specifying networks and the Neural Self (NS) network may contribute to affective biased attention.
referenceThe psychopathological self-schema model, depicted in Figure 1, posits that habitual negative beliefs about the self, personal world, and future are reified through a feedback loop where affect-biased attention influences subjective and behavioral symptoms, which in turn reinforce the beliefs.
referenceTodd et al. (2012) discussed affect-biased attention as a form of emotion regulation in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
claimAffect-biased attention is associated with distortions in initial attention allocation toward momentary experience and/or subsequent information processing that follows an emotional stimulus or is associated with real or imagined stimuli from the past or distant future.
claimAffect-biased attention plays a major role in causally influencing and maintaining disordered affective states, such as anxiety and depression.
claimEarly, non-conscious processing can be measured in pre-categorical, high-capacity sensory memory stores, perceptual rivalry, or affect-biased attention.
claimIntention and motivation in meditation practice may target attentional tuning and affective control settings, contributing to affect-biased attention.
claimThe transition from novice to advanced meditation practitioner may be driven by the development of psychological processes such as non-attachment, de-centering, a non-conscious shift in affect-biased attention, and the development of meta-awareness.
referenceIndividuals with diagnosed clinical disorders or known vulnerabilities demonstrate affect-biased attention that is contextually self-relevant, according to research cited by Yiend (2010).