Author, as appears in the article.: Aznar-Casanova, Jose Antonio; Gavilan, Jose M; Moreno Sanchez, Manuel; Haro, Juan
Department: Infermeria
URV's Author/s: Gavilán Ibáñez, José Manuel / Haro Rodriguez, Juan
Keywords: Young adult Visual perception Spain Social identification Rsvp Politics Physiological measures Patriotism Male Humans Heart-rate-variability Heart rate Galvanic skin response Female Emotions Emotional attentional blink Consciousness Cognition-emotion relationship Capture Attentional blink Adult rsvp patriotism emotional attentional blink cognition-emotion relationship
Abstract: This study aims to explore whether the implicit processing of emotional symbols related to patriotic feeling may exert some effects on attention. Here, we have conducted an experiment using two interrelated tasks. First, we use flags with different meanings to participants for measuring the strength of the emotional attentional blink (EAB) within a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm. Then, we use a congruency judgments subjective test, where we confront participants to judge the affinity between pairs of politician leaders and flags of different sign for community participants, while recording two physiological measures (Heart Rate Variance and Galvanic Skin Response) to evaluate the variations elicited by that confrontation. Results on the EAB task show a significant emotion induced blindness for emotional stimuli representing Catalan and Spanish patriotism (α = .05), while the effect does not appear for the stimulus representing neutral patriotism. The interaction Flags x Patriotism was significant, F(1, 51) = 4.62; p = .036; ηp2 = .083. Results on the second task show that measures derived from electrophysiological records are sensitive to patriotic feeling, both being complementary. In addition, by using measures of congruence, the Leaders x Flags interaction was significant, F(3.682, 125.204) = 53.55; p < .001; ηp2 = .612. Finally, a multiple linear regression model for each emotional inductor was verified for the Catalan case, using the EAB effect as criteria, R2Adjusted = .79; p < .001. Some theoretical and methodological aspects derived of this exploratory study are discussed.
Thematic Areas: Sociología Serviço social Saúde coletiva Revistas ciencias del comportamiento Psychology, multidisciplinary Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Nutrição Medicina iii Medicina ii Medicina i Linguistics and language Language and linguistics Interdisciplinar General psychology Engenharias iii Educação física Educação Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i
ISSN: 11387416
Author's mail: juan.haro@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3456-4731
Record's date: 2025-01-28
Paper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Paper original source: Spanish Journal Of Psychology. 23 (e30): e30-14
APA: Aznar-Casanova, Jose Antonio; Gavilan, Jose M; Moreno Sanchez, Manuel; Haro, Juan (2020). The Emotional Attentional Blink as a Measure of Patriotism. Spanish Journal Of Psychology, 23(e30), e30-14. DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2020.32
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2020
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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