Influence of Subliminal Visual Images on the Experience of Anxiety

Robles, Roxana; Smith, Richard A.; Carver, Charles S.; Wellens, A. Rodney

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“…The presence of a main effect for stimulus condition on competency as well as anxiety ratings indicates that the stimuli probably are not simply priming anxiety, as has been shown previously with brief exposures of frightening scenes (Robles et al, 1987). Also, the evidence of an interaction between condition and degree of practicing on the morality subscale implicates particular value systems rather than a global evaluative response: only those subjects who subscribed to the value system represented by the Pope were affected by exposure to his disapproving face.…”

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“…Robles, Smith, Carver, and Wellens (1987) exposed subjects to 17-ms exposures of frightening scenes, and observed an increase in subjects' level of anxiety. Bornstein, Leone, and Galley (1987) observed a mere exposure effect when subjects were given 4-ms exposures of emotionally neutral pictures of unfamiliar people's faces.…”

Section: Received April 10 1989mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Robles et al, 1987). When the 3 x 2 ANOVA was conducted on the competency subscale (the ' All t tests reported for Study 2 are two-tailed.…”

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Priming relationship schemas: My advisor and the pope are watching me from the back of my mind

Baldwin¹,

Carrell

Lopez

1990

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Cognitive priming methodologies were employed to examine whether internally represented interpersonal information can affect the experience of self. In the first study, psychology graduate students evaluated their own research ideas after exposures, below the level of conscious awareness, to slides of either the scowling, disapproving face of their department chair or the approving face of another person. In the second study, Catholic subjects evaluated themselves after exposure to the disapproving face of either the Pope or an unfamiliar other. In both studies, self-ratings were lower after the presentation of a disapproving significant other. In Study 2 there was no effect, however, if the disapproving other was not a personally significant authority figure, either because the subject was a relatively nonpracticing Catholic or the picture was of an unfamiliar person. It is argued that the primes may have activated relationship schemas, or cognitive structures representing regularities in interpersonal interaction. A person's sense of self at any given moment is surely influenced by a broad range of factors, including stable self-concepts, recent experiStudy 1 was supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship to Mark Baldwin, and was conducted while he was at

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Priming relationship schemas: My advisor and the pope are watching me from the back of my mind

Baldwin¹,

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Lopez

1990

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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234

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“…Some examples are the effects of smiling and threatening subliminal faces on trait anxiety (Robles, Smith, Carver, & Wellens, 1987); the effects of subliminal stimuli (snakes & spiders) on skin conductance response (SCR) (Öhman & Soares, 1994); the effects of subliminal words on a lexical decision time task (Kemp-Wheeler & Hill, 1992); the effects of positive affect versus negative affect subliminal photos on ratings of a person's personality characteristics and physical attractiveness (Knosnick, Betz, Jussim, & Lynn, 1992); the effects of a subliminal prime on mathematical addition (Ric & Muller, 2012); the effects of subliminal images of naked men and women on direction of attention as a function of the male participants' heterosexual versus homosexual orientation (Tsuchiya & Koch, 2005;Tsuchiya, Koch, Gilroy, & Blake, 2006); and, finally, the effects of subliminal abandonment versus unification cues on levels of eating (Waller & Barter, 2005).…”

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The Implications of Conceptual Critiques and Empirical Research on Unconscious Processes for Psychoanalytic Theory

Eagle¹

2013

The Psychoanalytic Review

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The paper examines the implications of conceptual critiques and empirical research on psychoanalytic formulations of unconscious processes. Different conceptions of unconscious processes and states are discussed: as markers for brain states, as unformulated and not-spelled-out fleeting experiences, and as implicit knowledge. The author notes and discusses the interpersonal and interactional aspects of unconscious processes in classical theory as well as in contemporary formulations. Representative examples of empirical research on unconscious processes are presented and their implications for psychoanalytic conceptions are examined. The author then discusses the conception of unconscious processes that emerges in view of conceptual critiques, empirical research findings, and clinical phenomena. Finally, the emphasis of both early and late Freudian theory on integration of various aspects of the personality rather than (or at least in addition to) on conscious versus unconscious is noted, and various ways of understanding what it means to make the unconscious conscious are discussed.

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“…Consequences of blurring a person's vision has been investigated in driving situations where downgrading of performance is observed [4]. We believe our visualization method, which is intuitively related to how air pollution is visualized, can stimulate the subliminal tension of humans towards hazardous environment, as subliminal visual stimulations have been observed to induce anxiety [6].…”

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Electrosmog Visualization through Augmented Blurry Vision

Fan

Seigneur

Nanayakkara

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 7th Augmented Human International Conference 2016

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Electrosmog is the electromagnetic radiation emitted from wireless technology such as Wi-Fi hotspots or cellular towers, and poses potential hazard to human. Electrosmog is invisible, and we rely on detectors which show level of electrosmog in a abstract warning such as numbers. Our system is able to detect electrosmog level from number of Wi-Fi networks, connected cellular towers and strengths, and show in an intuitive representation by blurring the vision of the users wearing a HeadMounted Display (HMD). The HMD displays in real-time the users' augmented surrounding environment with blurriness, as though the electrosmog actually clouds the environment. For demonstration, participants can walk in a video-see-through HMD and observe vision gradually blurred while approaching our prepared dense wireless network.

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Influence of Subliminal Visual Images on the Experience of Anxiety

Cited by 29 publications

References 23 publications

Priming relationship schemas: My advisor and the pope are watching me from the back of my mind

Priming relationship schemas: My advisor and the pope are watching me from the back of my mind

The Implications of Conceptual Critiques and Empirical Research on Unconscious Processes for Psychoanalytic Theory

Electrosmog Visualization through Augmented Blurry Vision

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