Emotion drives attention: detecting the snake in the grass.

By A. Ohman, Anders Flykt, Francisco Esteves. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2001

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sensory Systems, Social Psychology

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Mindfulness meditation and reduced emotional interference on a cognitive task (2007, methodology): “A mean score across all items is computed. Self-Compassion Scale ( Neff 2003 ).”
Theories and measurement of visual attentional processing in anxiety (2008, background): “Anxiety does not appear to influence the speed of initial covert shifts of attention (although this conclusion rests on limited evidence), but anxiety does influence the dwell time of attention on an object, making disengagement from threat stimuli difficult.”
The effects of emotion on attention: A review of attentional processing of emotional information (2010, background): “Additional studies looking at individual differences have mostly reported clear betweenparticipant differences in specific phobias (Ohman et al., 2001a) and social anxiety (Gilboa-Schechtman, Foa, & Amir, 1999).”
Reciprocal effects of psychological contract breach on counterproductive and organizational citizenship behaviors: The role of time (2018, neutral): “Specifically, it has been argued that these employees are more likely to notice and attend to anomalies (Adler & Obstfeld, 2007) and shift their attention to cues pointing toward potential future discrepancies in the PC (Öhman, Flykt, & Esteves, 2001).”
How brains beware: neural mechanisms of emotional attention. (2005, positive): “[ 8 ]). Although these results were sometimes interpreted as a ‘pop-out’ effect to suggest that emotional stimuli might be processed in ‘parallel’, rather than serially inspected as neutral stimuli, the advantage of emotional targets is clearly different from true ‘pop-out’ produced when targets are”
Saliency, attention, and visual search: an information theoretic approach. (2009, neutral): “…this arrives in the form of studies that observe pop-out of high-level features such as depth from shading (Ramachandran, 1988), facial expressions (Ohman, Flykt, & Esteves, 2001), 3D features (Enns & Rensink, 1990), perceptual groups (Bravo & Blake, 1990), surface planes (He & Nakayama, 1992),…”
Biometric Measures for Interactive Advertising Research (2011, background): “Some researchers hypothesize that only negative stimuli with high evolutionary meaning can facilitate cognitive processing, because they are noticed faster even in a highly distracting environment (Calvo and Lang 2004; Öhman, Flykt, and Esteves 2001).”