Crisis-related stimuli do not increase the emotional attentional blink in a general university student population.

ABSTRACT: Crises such as natural disasters or pandemics negatively impact the mental health of the affected community, increasing rates of depression, anxiety, or stress. It has been proposed that this stems in part from crisis-related stimuli triggering negative reactions that interrupt daily life. Given the frequency and prominence of crisis events, it is crucial to understand when crisis-related stimuli involuntarily capture attention and trigger increased stress and distraction from obligations. The emotional attentional blink (EAB) paradigm-in which emotional distractors hinder report of subsequent targets in streams of rapidly displayed stimuli-allows examination of such attentional capture in a rapidly changing dynamic environment. EABs are typically observed with generally disturbing stimuli

SUBMITTER: Santacroce LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10774501 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature