Priming the trait category "hostility": The moderating role of trait anxiety

Recent studies on affective priming with the naming task have revealed an influence of trait anxiety on the direction of affective priming effects (e.g., Berner & Maier, 2004 ). This moderating role of trait anxiety was further investigated in a study employing a conceptual priming task. After m...

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Published in:Cognition and emotion 2007-04, Vol.21 (3), p.577-595
Main Authors: Maier, Markus A., Berner, Michael P., Hau, Robin C., Pekrun, Reinhard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affectivity. Emotion
Biological and medical sciences
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Personality. Affectivity
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
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Summary:Recent studies on affective priming with the naming task have revealed an influence of trait anxiety on the direction of affective priming effects (e.g., Berner & Maier, 2004 ). This moderating role of trait anxiety was further investigated in a study employing a conceptual priming task. After masked presentation of either hostile or neutral primes, participants performed a person judgment task. As expected, the direction of the hostility rating difference score, defined as the difference between hostility ratings of a target person in the hostility priming condition and in the neutral priming condition, changed from positive to negative with increasing levels of self-reported trait anxiety. The findings are interpreted in terms of salience-dependent overcorrection processes (Glaser & Banaji, 1999 ). Implications for our understanding of the cognitive functioning in high trait anxiety are discussed.
ISSN:0269-9931
1464-0600
DOI:10.1080/02699930600652333