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Repeated response execution and inhibition alter subjective preferences but do not affect automatic approach and avoidance tendencies toward an object

BACKGROUND: Repeated action or inaction toward objects changes preferences for those objects. However, it remains unclear whether such training activates approach-avoidance motivation toward the objects, which leads to actual behavior. We conducted a pre-registered online experiment to examine wheth...

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Autores principales: Matsuda, Izumi, Nittono, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10573286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37842069
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16275
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description BACKGROUND: Repeated action or inaction toward objects changes preferences for those objects. However, it remains unclear whether such training activates approach-avoidance motivation toward the objects, which leads to actual behavior. We conducted a pre-registered online experiment to examine whether approach and avoidance tendencies were affected by the experience of having executed or withheld a button-press response to a stimulus. METHODS: Participants (N = 236) performed a Go/NoGo task in which they were asked to repeatedly execute a response to a picture of a mug (i.e., Go-primed stimulus) and suppress a response to another picture of a mug (i.e., NoGo-primed stimulus). They then received one of two manikin tasks, which were implicit association tests designed to assess approach–avoidance tendencies. One manikin task measured the reaction times of moving a manikin toward or away from the Go-primed stimulus and the other picture of a mug (i.e., unprimed stimulus). The other manikin task measured the reaction times of moving a manikin toward or away from the NoGo-primed stimulus and the unprimed stimulus. The participants then rated their preference for the Go-primed, NoGo-primed, and unprimed items. RESULTS: The Go-primed item was evaluated as more highly preferable than the unprimed item in the Go condition, while the NoGo-primed item was evaluated as less preferable than the unprimed item in the NoGo condition. In contrast, the mean approach/avoidance reaction times in the manikin task showed no difference between the Go-primed and unprimed stimuli or between the NoGo-primed and unprimed stimuli. CONCLUSION: When participants repeatedly responded or inhibited their responses to an object, their explicit preference for the object increased or decreased, respectively. However, the effect did not occur in approach-avoidance behaviors toward the object.
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spelling pubmed-105732862023-10-14 Repeated response execution and inhibition alter subjective preferences but do not affect automatic approach and avoidance tendencies toward an object Matsuda, Izumi Nittono, Hiroshi PeerJ Psychiatry and Psychology BACKGROUND: Repeated action or inaction toward objects changes preferences for those objects. However, it remains unclear whether such training activates approach-avoidance motivation toward the objects, which leads to actual behavior. We conducted a pre-registered online experiment to examine whether approach and avoidance tendencies were affected by the experience of having executed or withheld a button-press response to a stimulus. METHODS: Participants (N = 236) performed a Go/NoGo task in which they were asked to repeatedly execute a response to a picture of a mug (i.e., Go-primed stimulus) and suppress a response to another picture of a mug (i.e., NoGo-primed stimulus). They then received one of two manikin tasks, which were implicit association tests designed to assess approach–avoidance tendencies. One manikin task measured the reaction times of moving a manikin toward or away from the Go-primed stimulus and the other picture of a mug (i.e., unprimed stimulus). The other manikin task measured the reaction times of moving a manikin toward or away from the NoGo-primed stimulus and the unprimed stimulus. The participants then rated their preference for the Go-primed, NoGo-primed, and unprimed items. RESULTS: The Go-primed item was evaluated as more highly preferable than the unprimed item in the Go condition, while the NoGo-primed item was evaluated as less preferable than the unprimed item in the NoGo condition. In contrast, the mean approach/avoidance reaction times in the manikin task showed no difference between the Go-primed and unprimed stimuli or between the NoGo-primed and unprimed stimuli. CONCLUSION: When participants repeatedly responded or inhibited their responses to an object, their explicit preference for the object increased or decreased, respectively. However, the effect did not occur in approach-avoidance behaviors toward the object. PeerJ Inc. 2023-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10573286/ /pubmed/37842069 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16275 Text en © 2023 Matsuda and Nittono https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
spellingShingle Psychiatry and Psychology
Matsuda, Izumi
Nittono, Hiroshi
Repeated response execution and inhibition alter subjective preferences but do not affect automatic approach and avoidance tendencies toward an object
title Repeated response execution and inhibition alter subjective preferences but do not affect automatic approach and avoidance tendencies toward an object
title_full Repeated response execution and inhibition alter subjective preferences but do not affect automatic approach and avoidance tendencies toward an object
title_fullStr Repeated response execution and inhibition alter subjective preferences but do not affect automatic approach and avoidance tendencies toward an object
title_full_unstemmed Repeated response execution and inhibition alter subjective preferences but do not affect automatic approach and avoidance tendencies toward an object
title_short Repeated response execution and inhibition alter subjective preferences but do not affect automatic approach and avoidance tendencies toward an object
title_sort repeated response execution and inhibition alter subjective preferences but do not affect automatic approach and avoidance tendencies toward an object
topic Psychiatry and Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10573286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37842069
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16275
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