Are self-deceivers enhancing positive affect or denying negative affect? Toward an understanding of implicit affective processes

Robinson, Michael D.; Moeller, Sara K.; Goetz, P.

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“…This general instruction provided a rationale for alternating tasks across trials (Pashler, 1998). Moreover, it has been shown that such procedures are ideal for guarding against expectancy effects that can occur when primes are ostensibly to-be-ignored (McRae & Boisvert, 1998; Robinson, Moeller, & Goetz, 2009). There were 120 paired trials of this concept-color perception type.…”

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Anger as Seeing Red

Fetterman

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Gordon

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Social Psychological and Personality Science

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A class of metaphors links the experience of anger to perceptions of redness. Whether such metaphors have significant implications for understanding perception is not known. In Experiment 1, anger (versus sadness) concepts were primed and it was found that priming anger concepts led individuals to be more likely to perceive the color red. In Experiment 2, anger states were directly manipulated, and it was found that evoking anger led individuals to be more likely to perceive red. Both experiments showed that the observed effects were independent of the actual color presented. These findings extend the New Look, perceptual, metaphoric, and social cognitive literatures. Most importantly, the results suggest that emotion representation processes of a metaphoric type can be extended to the perceptual realm.

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Anger as Seeing Red

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“…Further, we regard it unlikely that strategic factors played a role in the paradigms in that both used ''continuous priming'' procedures shown to effectively guard against expectancy effects(McRae & Boisvert, 1998;Robinson, Moeller, & Goetz, 2009;Shelton & Martin, 1992). That is, from the participant's perspective, each trial was an independent one requiring an independent response.…”

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Cognitive sources of evidence for neuroticism's link to punishment-reactivity processes

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Robinson

2010

Cognition & Emotion

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“…However, such a narrow vision of morality may have other positive effects on well-being and moral self-concept through self-deception. In this respect, self-deception is an important component of well-being ( Baumeister, 1989 ; Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999 ; Paulhus, 1991 ; Robinson, Moeller, & Goetz, 2009 ; Taylor & Brown, 1994 ) and it is related to having a positive moral identity ( Mazar, Amir, & Ariely, 2008 ; Monin & Jordan, 2009 ). That is why it has been considered a defensive strategy that is adopted by individuals who have difficulty coping with a threatening world ( von Hippel & Trivers, 2011 ).…”

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How Can Men Convicted of Violence Against Women Feel Moral While Holding Sexist and Violent Attitudes? A Homeostatic Moral Model Based on Self-Deception

Jiménez

2018

Am J Mens Health

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A moral model is proposed to understand how men convicted of violence against the partner can feel moral in spite of their past violent behavior and their current violent and sexist attitudes. Because of its appeal to the role of self-deception and its relationship to psychological well-being, it was hypothesized that a rigid conception about what is right and wrong (moral absolutism) is associated with ambivalent outcomes that keep their psychological system in homeostasis. The relationships were specified a priori and tested using path analysis. Several fit indices supported the adequacy of the model and showed that moral absolutism was indirectly related to both psychological well-being and a good moral self-conceptualization through self-deception. At the same time, moral absolutism was related to sexist and violent attitudes and a poor moral self-conceptualization. Future interventions could include strategies to reduce the resistances to change based on the reduction of moral absolutism and self-deception.

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Are self-deceivers enhancing positive affect or denying negative affect? Toward an understanding of implicit affective processes

Cited by 12 publications

References 76 publications

Anger as Seeing Red

Anger as Seeing Red

Cognitive sources of evidence for neuroticism's link to punishment-reactivity processes

How Can Men Convicted of Violence Against Women Feel Moral While Holding Sexist and Violent Attitudes? A Homeostatic Moral Model Based on Self-Deception

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