The attentional blink is diminished for targets that form coherent semantic categories

Tibboel, Helen; Houwer, Jan De; Spruyt, Adriaan; Crombez, Geert

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.12.006

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“…This was evident in sparing from the attentional blink -an effect where identification of target words presented within a stream of rapidly presented distractors is impaired (e.g. Anderson 2005;Huang et al 2008;Tibboel et al 2011;Todd et al 2013;Todd et al 2014). Importantly, the AB sparing for climate words was correlated with the self-rated strength of concerns about climate change.…”

Section: Discussion: Attentional Prioritization Of Information About mentioning

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Political orientation and climate concern shape visual attention to climate change

Whitman¹,

Zhao²,

Todd³

2017

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Despite the scientific consensus, there is widespread public controversy about climate change. Previous explanations focused on interpretations hampered by political bias or insufficient knowledge of climate facts. We propose that public views of climate change may also be related to an attentional bias at a more basic level of cognitive processing. We hypothesized that selective visual attention toward or away from climate-related information would be associated with climate concern. To test prioritization of climate-related stimuli under conditions of limited attention, we asked participants to identify climate-related and neutral words within a rapid stream of stimuli. Undergraduate students attended to climate-related words more readily than neutral words. This attentional prioritization correlated with self-rated climate concern. We then examined this relationship in a more diverse community sample. Principal Component Analysis of survey data in the community sample revealed a component indexing a relationship between climate concern and political orientation. That component was correlated with the degree of selective inattention to climate-related words. Our findings suggest that climate-related communications may be most effective if tailored in a manner accounting for how attentional priorities differ between audiences – particularly those with different political orientations.

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Section: Discussion: Attentional Prioritization Of Information About mentioning

confidence: 99%

Political orientation and climate concern shape visual attention to climate change

Whitman¹,

Zhao²,

Todd³

2017

Preprint

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Political orientation and climate concern shape visual attention to climate change

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Despite the scientific consensus, there is widespread public controversy about climate change.Previous explanations focused on interpretations hampered by political bias or insufficient knowledge of climate facts. We propose that public views of climate change may also be related to an attentional bias at a more basic level of cognitive processing. We hypothesized that selective visual attention toward or away from climate-related information would be associated with climate concern. To test prioritization of climate-related stimuli under conditions of limited attention, we asked participants to identify climate-related and neutral words within a rapid stream of stimuli. Undergraduate students attended to climate-related words more readily than neutral words. This attentional prioritization correlated with self-rated climate concern. We then examined this relationship in a more diverse community sample. Principal Component Analysis of survey data in the community sample revealed a component indexing a relationship between climate concern and political orientation. That component was correlated with the degree of selective inattention to climate-related words. Our findings suggest that climate-related communications may be most effective if tailored in a manner accounting for how attentional priorities differ between audiences -particularly those with different political orientations.

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An inhibition effect in the temporal constrains of attentional selection: The Backward Blink

Sdoia¹,

Ferlazzo²

2012

Acta Psychologica

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The attentional blink is diminished for targets that form coherent semantic categories

Cited by 6 publications

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Political orientation and climate concern shape visual attention to climate change

Political orientation and climate concern shape visual attention to climate change

Political orientation and climate concern shape visual attention to climate change

An inhibition effect in the temporal constrains of attentional selection: The Backward Blink

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