Make the manikin move: Symbolic approach-avoidance responses affect implicit and explicit face evaluations

作者：Woud Marcella L^*; Maas Joyce; Becker Eni S; Rinck Mike

来源：Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2013, 25(6): 738-744.

DOI：10.1080/20445911.2013.817413

• Approach-avoidance training
• Implicit and explicit face evaluations
• Manikin task

The present research aimed to replicate and extend findings of Huijding, Muris, Lester, Field, and Joosse (2011), investigating whether symbolic approach-avoidance responses can induce implicit and explicit evaluation biases. Faces with a neutral expression were shown on a computer screen, and participants were instructed to repeatedly move a manikin towards some faces (approach) and away from other faces (avoidance). An affective priming task and a face rating task were used to assess training-compatible differences in implicit and explicit face evaluations, respectively. Results showed that the manikin training was successful: The priming task revealed more positive implicit evaluations of approached than avoided faces, and approached faces were rated more positively than avoided ones in the face rating task. These findings replicate those of Huijding and colleagues by demonstrating training effects on explicit evaluations, and they extend them by demonstrating effects on implicit evaluations.

• 出版日期2013-9-1