期刊
COGNITION & EMOTION
卷 35, 期 6, 页码 1195-1202出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2021.1932427
关键词
Cognitive control; emotions; affect; metacognition; perceived difficulty; positive
资金
- Mini-ARC grant from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles
This study examined how affective states influence the decision to engage cognitive control by changing participants' subjective experiences. The results showed that participants subjectively judged happy trials as easier, even though they objectively made more errors, and they engaged less cognitive control with happy faces compared to neutral or fearful faces.
In many situations, engaging cognitive control is required to override automatic responses and to behave in an adaptive manner. However, cognitive control is also effortful and costly which makes it aversive. A fundamental question is how individuals decide to engage or not in cognitive control based on the costs of this effort and the motivation to achieve the goals. In the present study, we explored the hypothesis that affective states can influence this decision by changing participants' subjective experiences during the task. Participants performed a conflict task (arrow priming) and judged their feeling of difficulty after each trial. Affective states were induced by presenting emotional faces (happy, fearful or neutral) at the beginning of each trial. We found that participants subjectively judged happy trials as easier even though they objectively made more errors in this condition. Follow-up analyses revealed that participants engaged less cognitive control with happy than with neutral or fearful faces. We conclude that affective states influence the recruitment of cognitive control and associated metacognitive experiences.
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