When local processing increases the appeal of healthy options

vanDellen, Michelle R.; Sanders, Matthew L.; Fitzsimons, Gráinne M.

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2012.03.010

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“…Importantly, the Global-Local training task has been used in previous studies that have sought to manipulate attentional breadth. This manipulation has previously shown to influence attentional bias to negative information (Gable & Harmon-Jones, 2012) and emotion regulation (Hanif et al, 2012;vanDellen et al, 2012). However, these studies typically lack manipulation check procedures, which do not allow to draw conclusions on the causal influence of attentional breadth on these far transfer measures.…”

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“…In contrast to previous research (Hanif et al, 2012;vanDellen, Sanders, & Fitzsimons, 2012), the present series of studies will serve to establish whether or not attentional breadth can be directly manipulated using previously employed and novel candidate training procedures, delivered in either single-session or multiple-session format.…”

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Can training change attentional breadth? Failure to find transfer effects

Fang

Hoorelbeke

Bruyneel

et al. 2017

Psychological Research

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Recently, there is increasing interest in the causal relationship between attentional breadth and emotion regulation. To test this causal relationship, attentional breadth needs to be manipulated stringently. The aim of the current research was to establish whether visual attentional breadth could be manipulated through experimental training procedures. We conducted two single-session training experiments and one multiple-session training experiment, all of which contained pre-and post-training assessments to test the direct transfer effects of training on attentional breadth construed in different measures. For the first single-session training (Experiment 1), no training effects were found to transfer to the subsequent attentional breadth measures in terms of global-local processing preference. For the second single-session training (Experiment 2) and the five-day training (Experiment 3) which combined both trainings from Experiment 1 and 2, there were some indications that attentional breadth can be decreased, but there was no evidence that it could be increased neither in terms of global-local processing preference nor in terms of scope of visual perception. Bayesian analysis confirmed the null-hypothesis of no increase in attentional breadth through delivery of these training procedures. Therefore, our findings do not support the hypothesis that training variants of the Global-Local attentional breadth task or of the visuospatial attentional breadth task can stably alter attentional breadth in healthy students.Possible explanations and implications are discussed.

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Section: Current Studiesmentioning

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Can training change attentional breadth? Failure to find transfer effects

Fang

Hoorelbeke

Bruyneel

et al. 2017

Psychological Research

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“…For example, one could focus on the appealing crunch of fresh vegetables to align their high-level health value with low-level features. In contrast, one could focus on how the pillowy texture of the cupcake is due to an abundance of fat molecules, reducing its low-level appeal (vanDellen et al, 2012). Moreover, low-level, process-oriented construals have been shown to be more beneficial in terms of goal-pursuit compared with high-level, outcome-oriented construals (Fishbach & Choi, 2012; Freund & Hennecke, 2015).…”

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Emotional Appraisal, Psychological Distance and Construal Level: Implications for Cognitive Reappraisal

Abraham,

Powers,

McRae

2023

Emotion Review

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Construal-level theory emphasizes that representing events at greater spatial, temporal, social, or hypothetical distance results in processing information at high construal levels (more conceptual, abstract). We posit that psychological distance and construal level are somewhat separable constructs, and can have different effects on emotion, and therefore, emotion regulation. We argue that psychological distance influences emotional appraisal, such that increasing distance results in lower emotion intensity, which can be leveraged to down-regulate emotions. However, we consider construal level a mindset, which can occur with either high or low psychological distance. Furthermore, we argue that compared with psychological distance, construal level has a more nuanced relationship with emotion, and changing construal level for the purpose of changing emotion also requires considering the construal level of one's emotion-regulation goals.

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