Enactment of approach and avoidance behavior influences the scope of perceptual and conceptual attention

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Pay attention! A review of visual attentional expertise in sport (2009, methodology): “Förster et al. (2006) provided evidence that enactment of approach behavior broadens the focus of perceptual attention.”
How emotions inform judgment and regulate thought. (2007, background): “information hypothesis explains in terms of positive and negative affect are explained by some investigators [ 35 ] in terms of the”
The Cognitive Consequences of Formal Clothing (2015, methodology): “Given that we did not have specific predictions regarding the measure(s) that would be influenced by clothing formality, we collapsed across both measures (per previous work using such tasks, Fo¨rster et al., 2006; Gable & Harmon-Jones, 2008, 2010a, 2010b).”
Power, stability of power, and creativity (2011, background): “approach motivation may lead to global processing (Förster et al., 2006).”
Implications of Counterfactual Structure for Creative Generation and Analytical Problem Solving (2007, background): “For instance, having a promotion and approach regulatory focus appears to induce an expansive processing style ( Forster, Friedman, Ozelsel, & Denzler, 2006 ).”