Satmarean, T., Milne, E. orcid.org/0000-0003-0127-0718 and Rowe, R. orcid.org/0000-0001-5556-3650 (2022) Working memory guidance of visual attention to threat in offenders. PLoS ONE, 17 (1). e0261882. ISSN 1932-6203
Abstract
Aggression and trait anger have been linked to attentional biases toward angry faces and attribution of hostile intent in ambiguous social situations. Memory and emotion play a crucial role in social-cognitive models of aggression but their mechanisms of influence are not fully understood. Combining a memory task and a visual search task, this study investigated the guidance of attention allocation toward naturalistic face targets during visual search by visual working memory (WM) templates in 113 participants who self-reported having served a custodial sentence. Searches were faster when angry faces were held in working memory regardless of the emotional valence of the visual search target. Higher aggression and trait anger predicted increased working memory modulated attentional bias. These results are consistent with the Social-Information Processing model, demonstrating that internal representations bias attention allocation to threat and that the bias is linked to aggression and trait anger.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Satmarean et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2022 14:01 |
Last Modified: | 10 Jan 2022 14:01 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0261882 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:182245 |