Being watched by others eliminates the effect of emotional arousal on inhibitory control

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Title:	Being watched by others eliminates the effect of emotional arousal on inhibitory control
Authors:	阮啓弘;Yu, Jiaxin;Tseng, Philip;Muggleton, Neil G.;Juan, Chi-Hung
Contributors:	生醫理工學院認知神經科學研究所
Keywords:	Awareness;cognitive control;conscientiousness;Emotion Regulation;Emotions;Psychology
Date:	2015-01-01
Issue Date:	2026-04-23 14:20:50 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	Switzerland: Frontiers Media SA
Abstract:	摘要： The psychological effect of being watched by others has been proven a powerful tool in modulating social behaviors (e.g., charitable giving) and altering cognitive performance (e.g., visual search). Here we tested whether such awareness would affect one of the core elements of human cognition: emotional processing and impulse control. Using an emotion stop-signal paradigm, we found that viewing emotionally-arousing erotic images before attempting to inhibit a motor response impaired participants' inhibition ability, but such an impairing effect was completely eliminated when participants were led to believe that their facial expressions were monitored by a webcam. Furthermore, there was no post-error slowing in any of the conditions, thus these results cannot be explained by a deliberate speed-accuracy tradeoff or other types of conscious shift in strategy. Together, these findings demonstrate that the interaction between emotional arousal and impulse control can be dependent on one's state of self-consciousness. Furthermore, this study also highlights the effect that the mere presence of the experimenter may have on participants' cognitive performance, even if it's only a webcam. 其他題名： Front Psychol 出版者： Switzerland: Frontiers Media SA 出版日期： 2015-01-20 出處： Frontiers in Psychology, 2015-01, Vol.6, p.4 資源來源： PubMed Central Open Access 版權： Copyright © 2015 Yu, Tseng, Muggleton and Juan. 2015 識別號： ISSN: 1664-1078 識別號： EISSN: 1664-1078 識別號： DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00004 識別號： PMID: 25653635
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