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The goal of the present study was to test the effects of emotional arousal elicited by emotional faces on visual search performance. In Experiment 1, facial expressions acted as distractors presented throughout the task. In Experiment 2, faces were presented only before the task. We found that the level of arousal elicited by faces can better descr...
Having good digital skills is essential today, yet little is known about the cognitive factors that influence the development of these skills. Given the importance of executive functions (EFs) in adapting to environmental changes and acquiring skills, EFs might contribute to acquiring digital skills too. EFs might also influence people’s approach t...
Background and Purpose: Diabetes-specific distress (DD) is a crucial predictor of patients’ self-care, necessitating reliable screening tools. The Diabetes Distress Scale captures typical sources of patients’ distress effectively. Methods: The Hungarian Diabetes Distress Scale (HDDS) was employed in two studies with 450 type 2 diabetes patients. St...
Past research has shown that the arousal level of emotional faces as targets in a visual search paradigm is a more influential factor on performance than the emotional category of the face (e.g., angry, happy). These studies did not address the effect of facial stimuli on executive attentional processing (i.e., inhibition), which is a crucial facto...
Throughout human evolutionary history, snakes have been associated with danger and threat. Research has shown that snakes are prioritized by our attentional system, despite many of us rarely encountering them in our daily lives. We conducted two high-powered, pre-registered experiments (total N = 224) manipulating target prevalence to understand th...
Bevezetés : A szociális szorongás olyan társas helyzetekben megjelenő félelem vagy szorongás, amelyben az egyén mások figyelmének lehet kitéve. Az egyén attól fél, hogy mások negatívan ítélik őt meg, és az ebből fakadó distressz képzelt és valós szociális deficitekhez vezethet. A szorongás ezen fajtájának szubklinikai formája korábbi kutatások alap...
Past studies argued that the attentional capture by threats is hard to inhibit. When using threats as task-irrelevant stimuli, this effect can deteriorate performance on the primary task. Whether attentional capture is driven by affective information (threat) or visual features (shape) is still debated. Here we aimed to investigate the role of thre...
The popularity of the horror genre is constantly increasing and still has not reached its peak. As a recreational activity, people watch horror movies in pursuit of excitement and enjoyment. However, we still do not know what traits make people seek out this type of increase in arousal (excitement) and why they find it desirable (enjoyment). Conseq...
While it has been suggested that more than a quarter of the whole population is at risk of developing some form of specific phobia (SP) during their lives, we still know little about the various risk and protective factors and underlying mechanisms. Moreover, although SPs are distinct mental disorder categories, most studies do not distinguish betw...
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Az erőszakos, kellemetlen vagy halálhoz köthető tartalmak iránti érdeklődés a morbid kíváncsiság mértékével jellemezhető. Az ilyen tartalmak általában félelmet, undort, illetve elkerülő viselkedést váltanak ki, ugyanakkor egyes embereket a kiváltott arousal emelkedés miatt mégis vonzanak. A jelenség részletesebb feltárásával...
How people experience nature influences their attitudes and actions towards it. Having had a negative encounter with an animal may facilitate avoidance and freezing responses which may encourage negative feelings towards it and the environment in which it is found. Animals associated with fear, such as snakes, are often the victims of hunting and k...
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Although adaptive defense mechanisms are useful in helping us avoid getting injured, they are also triggered by medical interventions and procedures, when avoidance is harmful. A body of previous results showed that both fear and disgust play a pivotal role in medical avoidance. However, the underlying mechanisms are not fully understo...
Individuals with high levels of blood-injection-injury (BII) fears are more likely to avoid health screenings, vaccination, and even minor medical interventions. This could result in more serious health issues, lower quality of life, and even shorter life expectancy. However, still little is known about how various emotions (i.e.., fear and disgust...
A specifikus fóbiák a leggyakoribb szorongásos zavarok közé tartoznak, ennek ellenére viszonylag kevés figyelmet kapnak a szakirodalomban és a mindennapi életben is aluldiagnosztizáltak. Fontosnak tartjuk, hogy felhívjuk a figyelmet a specifikus fóbiákra, azok sokszínűségére, és rámutassunk a kezelési lehetőségekre is. A túlzott félelmek számos sze...
Although adaptive defence mechanisms are useful in helping us avoid getting injured, they are also triggered by medical interventions and procedures, when avoidance is harmful. A body of previous results showed that both fear and disgust play a pivotal role in medical avoidance. However, the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. Thus, the...
