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The effect of induced sadness and moderate depression on attention networks

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Bellaera, L. and Mühlenen, Adrian von (2017) The effect of induced sadness and moderate depression on attention networks. Cognition and Emotion, 31 (6). pp. 1140-1152. doi:10.1080/02699931.2016.1197101 ISSN 0269-9931.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1197101

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Abstract

This study investigates how sadness and minor/moderate depression influences the three functions of attention: alerting, orienting, and executive control using the attention network test. The aim of the study is to investigate whether minor to moderate depression is more similar to sadness or clinical depression with regards to attentional processing. It was predicted that both induced sadness and minor to moderate depression will influence executive control by narrowing spatial attention and in turn this will lead to less interference from the flanker items (i.e., less effects of congruency) due to a focused attentional state. No differences were predicted for alerting or orienting functions. The results from the two experiments, the first inducing sadness (Experiment 1) and the second measuring subclinical depression (Experiment 2), show that, as expected, participants who are sad or minor to moderately depressed showed less flanker interference compared to participants who were neither sad nor depressed. This study provides strong evidence, that irrespective of its aetiology, sadness and minor/moderate depression have similar effects on spatial attention.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Sadness, Depression, Mental, Attention -- Testing
Journal or Publication Title: Cognition and Emotion
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0269-9931
Official Date: 2017
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DateEvent
2017Published
20 June 2016Available
29 May 2016Accepted
Volume: 31
Number: 6
Page Range: pp. 1140-1152
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1197101
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 13 June 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access: 20 January 2018
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