Attentional Bias for Exercise-Related Images

作者：Berry Tanya R^*; Spence John C; Stolp Sean M

来源：Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2011, 82(2): 302-309.

• exercise
• implicit processes
• visual probe

This research examined attentional bias toward exercise-related images using a visual probe task. It was hypothesized that more-active participants would display attentional bias toward the exercise-related images. The results showed that men displayed attentional bias for the exercise images. There was a significant interaction of activity level by gender, and simple slopes analysis showed that active women displayed attentional bias toward the exercise-related images and inactive women displayed attentional bias toward the control images. A similar analysis with explicit attention to the pictures as the outcome variable was not significant. These findings confirm that attention for exercise-related images can be captured automatically regardless of whether people report they are attending to them.

• 出版日期2011-6