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High working memory capacity predicts negative gaze but high self-esteem predicts positive gaze following ego threat

Weaver, Joseph S.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1307144564

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2011, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Psychology.
This study investigated the role of working memory capacity (WMC) in successful emotion regulation via visual attention deployment in a healthy, undergraduate population. The 43 participants were Introductory Psychology students at Case Western Reserve University. In the first session, data were collected on trait-level variables such as working memory capacity (WMC), behavioral inhibition and behavioral activation (BIS/BAS), trait self-esteem, intelligence, and trait positive and negative affect. Participants also viewed pairs of positive and negative emotional images while their gaze was tracked. During the second session, one week later, participants completed state measures of positive and negative affect and self-esteem before and after a bogus personality inventory. After the personality inventory, half of the participants received an ego-threat before viewing the emotional image pairs. Participants with high WMC tended to look longer at negative images than those with low WMC, following threat, whereas those with higher trait self-esteem looked longer at positive image. Higher crystallized predicted larger increases in negative affect, following threat. Greater BIS predicted larger decreases in positive affect, following threat.
Heath Demaree (Advisor)
Lee Thompson (Committee Member)
Doug Detterman (Committee Member)
64 p.
Psychology
working memory capacity; emotion regulation; visual attention

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  • Weaver, J. S. (2011). High working memory capacity predicts negative gaze but high self-esteem predicts positive gaze following ego threat [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1307144564

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Weaver, Joseph. High working memory capacity predicts negative gaze but high self-esteem predicts positive gaze following ego threat. 2011. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1307144564.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Weaver, Joseph. "High working memory capacity predicts negative gaze but high self-esteem predicts positive gaze following ego threat." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1307144564

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