The vigilance-avoidance model of avoidant recognition: An ERP study under threat priming

Zhai, Jing; Xu, Chen; Ma, Jianling; Yang, Qing‐Qing; Liu, Ying

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2016.10.014

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“…On the whole, the behavioral outcome reflected state anxiety affected only negative words on memory retrieval phase, further, the physiological results suggested that state anxiety affected only the new words instead of old words about negative words, the effect was accorded with previous studies, which found the difference was in new words and not old words 52 , 70 , 71 . According to vigilance-avoidance hypothesis 72 – 77 , vigilance for negative events could enhance succeeding memory trace of the negative event for anxious individuals. Anxious individuals always more preferentially attend to negative events, encode them more deeply and retrieve memories more easily and correctly, as it could make anxious individuals considering the current situation more negative than it actually was.…”

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The effect of anxiety on emotional recognition: evidence from an ERP study

Zhuang

Wang

et al. 2018

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Anxiety-related bias in the recognition memory based on trait anxiety has induced some studies. Their results, however, were conflicting. In fact, anxious differences not only differed from personality traits but also from different anxiety mood levels. We explored the emotional memory bias in both trait and state anxiety individuals, the high trait and high state anxiety group, the high trait and low state anxiety group, the low trait and high state anxiety group, and the low trait and low state anxiety group, on classic recognition paradigm using event-related potentials (ERPs). The behavioral results showed high state anxiety levels increased the d’ of negative words, regardless of the trait anxiety of participant is high or low, and a lower d’ of recognition memory for negative words than for neutral and positive words in all participants. Moreover, Electrophysiological results supported the findings of behavior, showing an earlier N400 (250–500 ms) latency elicited for new-negative words in high state level than in low state levels in right parietal region. These results suggested that the memory bias to negative events resides in state anxiety, but not in trait anxiety.

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The effect of anxiety on emotional recognition: evidence from an ERP study

Zhuang

Wang

et al. 2018

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“…Counterintuitively, selectively disengaging from negative emotional expressions may actually require avoidant individuals to devote some attention to those facial expressions. The “vigilance-avoidance” model of avoidant defenses argues that avoidant individuals are initially vigilant to threatening stimuli on an implicit or physiological level, and this initial vigilance helps them keep the threat from entering conscious awareness (Chun et al, 2015; Dykas & Cassidy, 2011; Fraley, Garner, & Shaver, 2000; Zhai et al, 2016). For example, attachment avoidance predicts increased neural processing of angry faces at very early stages of visual processing (e.g., 100 ms after stimulus presentation; Dan & Raz, 2012).…”

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No effect of attachment avoidance on visual disengagement from a romantic partner’s face

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Maxwell

Lockwood

2020

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Attachment avoidance (discomfort with closeness and intimacy) has been inconsistently linked to visual disengagement from emotional faces, with some studies finding disengagement toward specific emotional faces and others finding no effects. Although most studies use stranger faces as stimuli, it is likely that attachment effects would be most pronounced in the context of attachment relationships. The present study ( N = 92) combined ecologically valid stimuli (i.e., pictures of romantic partner’s face) with eye-tracking methods to more precisely test whether highly avoidant individuals are faster at disengaging from emotional faces. Unexpectedly, attachment avoidance had no effect on saccadic reaction time, regardless of face type or emotion. Instead, all participants took longer to disengage from romantic partner faces than from strangers’ faces, although this effect should be replicated in the future. Our results suggest that romantic attachments capture visual attention on an oculomotor level, regardless of one’s personal attachment orientations.

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“…Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a diagnostic imaging technique used to obtain information about brain activities by detecting voltage changes created by neurons on the scalp cortical surface, and new technologies have made it possible to obtain EEG data without any problems [15]. Because the brain activity is directly linked to people's cognitive processes [16], some studies have also analyzed patterns of brain electrical activity measured using EEG to predict cognitive states such as stress, attention, mental workload, and alertness [17][18][19]. A different study suggested using EEG to detect a person's mind wandering.…”

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Statistical Analysis of Noise-induced Brain Electrical Activity of Employees in the Underground Mining Sector in the Soma Basin

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Nalbant

ORHAN

et al. 2022

Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi

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In the mining sector, which requires a lot of attention, excessive noise pollution is encountered during the works due to the use of mining machines, and this is observed as one of the most important factors causing various problems for the personnel working in underground mining. The study investigated the neurological effects of instantaneous noise exposure and exposure to noise on workers' health in the underground mining sector using electroencephalography (EEG) device. Firstly, the noises that underground workers are exposed to in different working areas were determined. The brain’s electrical activities were measured at periodic intervals under the noise of one hundred people who work or will work in the mining industry. Their relationship with occupational noise exposure was analyzed statistically. As a result of these measurements, the values collected in noise-free and noisy environments were compared.

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The vigilance-avoidance model of avoidant recognition: An ERP study under threat priming

Cited by 12 publications

References 41 publications

The effect of anxiety on emotional recognition: evidence from an ERP study

The effect of anxiety on emotional recognition: evidence from an ERP study

No effect of attachment avoidance on visual disengagement from a romantic partner’s face

Statistical Analysis of Noise-induced Brain Electrical Activity of Employees in the Underground Mining Sector in the Soma Basin

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