Blinded by and Stuck in Negative Emotions: Is Psychological Inflexibility Across Different Domains Related?

ABSTRACT: Psychological inflexibility is theorized to underlie difficulties adjusting mental processes in response to changing circumstances. People show inflexibility across a range of domains, including attention, cognition, and affect. But it remains unclear whether common mechanisms underlie inflexibility in different domains. We investigated this possibility in a pre-registered replication and extension examining associations among attentional, cognitive, and affective inflexibility measures. Participants (N = 196) completed lab tasks assessing (a) emotion-induced blindness, the tendency for task-irrelevant emotional stimuli to impair attention allocation to non-emotional stimuli; (b) emotional inertia, the tendency for feelings to persist across time and contexts; and glob

SUBMITTER: Moeck EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9540095 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature