Optimism and Attentional Bias for Negative and Positive Stimuli

By S. Segerstrom. 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Citations in the corpus

Preference for Risk in Investing as a Function of Trait Optimism and Gender (2003, unknown): “Recent research suggests that optimists have an unconscious attentional bias for positive information, while pessimists have an unconscious attentional bias for negative information (Segerstrom, 2001).”
Behavioural and physiological responses to the emotional and taboo Stroop tasks in native and non-native speakers of English (2011, methodology): “This pattern of reduced arousal to positive words has been also reported previously with monolingual participants who were described as pessimists (Segerstrom, 2001).”
Dispositional Optimism and the Emergence of Social Network Diversity (2012, background): “Optimism is associated with extraversion and, more generally, the heightened experience of positive emotion (Chang and Sanna 2001; Segerstrom 2001).”
How Do People Pursue Happiness?: Relating Personality, Happiness-Increasing Strategies, and Well-Being (2006, background): “Moreover, while viewing negative stimuli, pessimists have faster skin conductance rates than optimists (Segerstrom, 2001).”
The Inhibition of Socially Rejecting Information Among People with High Versus Low Self-Esteem: The Role of Attentional Bias and the Effects of Bias Reduction Training (2004, result): “…one’s environment for negative information (Pratto & John, 1991; Wentura, Rothermund, & Bak, 2000) and is consistent with earlier research (e.g., Segerstrom, 2001), we are reluctant to interpret the finding because the words were not carefully matched for length, frequency, and so on because…”
The Effect of Managerial "Style" on the Tone of Earnings Conference Calls ∗ (2012, methodology): “attentional bias toward positive stimuli as demonstrated by performance on the emotional Stroop task (Segerstrom 2001).”
Measuring emotional processes in animals: the utility of a cognitive approach. (2005, unknown): “For example, emotion effects may act directly on the judgement or risk assessment process itself, or indirectly, through biases in the attention and memory processes that pertain to it [221].”
The evolving concept of subjective well-being: The multifaceted nature of happiness. (2009, background): “Although we recognize the importance of attention in affect regulation (see Mathews and MacLeod, 1994; Segerstrom, 2001), of central importance to the present discussion of SWB are the higher-order conscious processes such as cognitive judgments or global evaluations of one’s life.”
Understanding Subtle Sexism: Detection and Use of Sexist Language (2004, background): “The tendency for those low in Modern Sexism to perceive sexist language to be sexist could be because this language represents a negative stimulus for them and people tend to attend to negative information (Keogh, Ellery, Hunt, & Hannent, 2001; Segerstrom, 2001 ); this negativity may be the reason ”