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CONTRIBUTION OF FEAR AND DISGUST TO SPIDER AVOIDANCE AND SPIDER-RELATED STROOP INTERFERENCE

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2014
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Emotional Stroop tasks are used to observe the effects of interference in colornaming performance when under high arousal. Participants in the present study completed the Spider Phobia Questionnaire, trait fear questionnaire and trait disgust questionnaire. Response latency data were collected by an emotional Stroop task with spider-related words. Although interference effects were not observed, it is possible that this is due to the suppression effects threatening stimuli evoke in high distress participants. Participants also took part in a Behavioral Approach Task (BAT) with a Chilean Rose-hair tarantula and a Chilean Rose-hair tarantula’s shed exoskeleton. There was not a significant difference between approach distance between the distressed and non-distressed groups nor many consistent significant differences between reported fear and disgust in response to the two stimuli between the two groups. There were some significant correlations between trait fear and BAT responses to the exoskeleton stimuli.
Title: CONTRIBUTION OF FEAR AND DISGUST TO SPIDER AVOIDANCE AND SPIDER-RELATED STROOP INTERFERENCE.
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Name(s): Vassilopoulos, Areti
Vernon, Laura
O’Brien, William
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Thesis
Date Created: Spring 2014
Date Issued: 2014
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Florida
Physical Form: pdf
Extent: 26 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Emotional Stroop tasks are used to observe the effects of interference in colornaming performance when under high arousal. Participants in the present study completed the Spider Phobia Questionnaire, trait fear questionnaire and trait disgust questionnaire. Response latency data were collected by an emotional Stroop task with spider-related words. Although interference effects were not observed, it is possible that this is due to the suppression effects threatening stimuli evoke in high distress participants. Participants also took part in a Behavioral Approach Task (BAT) with a Chilean Rose-hair tarantula and a Chilean Rose-hair tarantula’s shed exoskeleton. There was not a significant difference between approach distance between the distressed and non-distressed groups nor many consistent significant differences between reported fear and disgust in response to the two stimuli between the two groups. There were some significant correlations between trait fear and BAT responses to the exoskeleton stimuli.
Identifier: FA00003631 (IID)
Note(s): Includes bibliography.
Thesis (B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, 2014.
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