Emotional automaticity is a matter of timing.

Emotion and Attention Effects: Is It All a Matter of Timing? Not Yet

Controversy surrounds the relationship between emotion and attention in brain and behavior. Two recent studies acquired millisecond-level data to investigate the timing of emotion and attention effects in the amygdala (Luo et al., 2010; Pourtois et al., 2010). Both studies argued that the effects of emotional content temporally precede those of attention and that prior discrepancies in the lite...

Automaticity in anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder.

In this paper we examine the nature of automatic cognitive processing in anxiety disorders and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Rather than viewing automaticity as a unitary construct, we follow a social cognition perspective (Bargh, 1994) that argues for four theoretically independent features of automaticity: unconscious (processing of emotional stimuli occurs outside awareness), efficient (p...

Psychometric properties of the Persian Version of Test of Performance Strategies among Young Athletes

Introduction and Objectives: self-report psychological questionnaires are important tools for assessing cognitive and emotional status of athletes. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of test of performance strategies (TOPS) among athletes. Methodology: 209 males (n=125) and females (n=84) national and champions athletes aged 15 to 18 completed TO...

Emotional appraisal is influenced by cardiac afferent information.

Influential models highlight the central integration of bodily arousal with emotion. Some emotions, notably disgust, are more closely coupled to visceral state than others. Cardiac baroreceptors, activated at systole within each cardiac cycle, provide short-term visceral feedback. Here we explored how phasic baroreceptor activation may alter the appraisal of brief emotional stimuli and conseque...

Emotion The Automaticity of Emotional Face-Context Integration