Parsing the contributions of negative affect vs. aversive motivation to cognitive control: an experimental investigation.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Punishment is a powerful drive that fosters aversive motivation and increases negative affect. Previous studies have reported that this drive has the propensity to improve cognitive control, as shown by improved conflict processing when it is used. However, whether aversive motivation per se or negative affect eventually drives this change remains unclear because in previous work, the specific contribution of these two components could not be isolated.

Methods

To address this question, we conducted two experiments where we administered the confound minimized Stroop task to a large group of participants each time (N = 50 and N = 47 for Experiment 1 and 2, respectively) and manipulated punishment and feedback contingency using a factorial desi

SUBMITTER: Yang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10543231 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature