Implicit Affect and Autonomous Nervous System Reactions

In everyday life, affective processes occur spontaneously and typically go along with an automatic activation of action tendencies and physiological responses. Because self-reports of affect are also known to be biased by various factors, including deficits in introspection or impression management...

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Autores: Weil, Anna-Sophie, Hernández, Gina Patricia, Suslow, Thomas, Quirin, Markus
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:253326
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/253326
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01634
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Implicit affect
Dual-processing model
Implicit positive and negative affect test
Autonomous nervous system reactions
Cardiovascular responses
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Sumario:In everyday life, affective processes occur spontaneously and typically go along with an automatic activation of action tendencies and physiological responses. Because self-reports of affect are also known to be biased by various factors, including deficits in introspection or impression management strategies, an indirect measure, the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT), was developed to assess implicit affect and to circumvent these difficulties. In this review, findings from neurobiological and clinical studies administering the IPANAT are revised, we focus on the link between implicit affect and psychophysiological reactions to affective stimuli and stressors. Specifically, implicit affect as measured by the IPANAT was found to predict cardiovascular, endocrine, and functional neuroimaging correlates of stress or fear beyond explicit affect. The present evidence strongly suggests the usage of implicit affect measures in future research on stress and psychopathology.