Attention Bias Of Low Self-esteem Individuals To Aggressive Cues

Aggression is a typical social psychological phenomenon which is common in human beings,too high aggression will seriously damage the harmonious development of human society.Early studies found that individuals’ self-esteem traits were negatively correlated with aggressive traits,and low self-esteem individuals showed more aggressive tendencies than those with high self-esteem.In the research on aggressive cue attention bias of low self-esteem individuals,most of them used dot-probe paradigm,emotional Stroop task and spatial cue task,but relatively few used visual search paradigm.In the visual search task,the visual search process is closely related to the individual’s attention system.For example,in the research of visual search contextual cueing effect,the guiding process of attention has an important influence on the contextual cueing effect: In the process of visual search,the different effects of some factors on attention guidance process can promote or inhibit the contextual cueing effect to some extent.Therefore,this study intends to start from the cognitive level of aggression,combined with the related research of contextual cueing effect,to further verify the attention bias of low self-esteem college students’ aggressive clues,and to explore the individual’s attention bias towards search target stimulation or distraction stimulation.Whether it will have different effects on the learning of the contextual cueing effect,and provide new arguments for the intrinsic processing mechanism of the contextual cueing effect--the guiding theory.In this study,the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale was distributed to the university students,and the high-and low-level self-esteem students were selected according to the scale scores.The study consisted of three experiments: Experiment 1 used the classical research paradigm of contextual cueing effect,and further whether the offensive vocabulary is bound as a biased cues and target stimuli,the experiment was divided into baseline condition(all stimuli were bound to neutral words)and target stimulus-aggressive condition(target stimulus bound to aggressive words,distracted stimulus bound to neutral words),and then explore whether this kind of attention bias of low self-esteem college students on aggressive cues is learning contextual cueing effect have an impact;Experiment 2 used the contextual cueing effect research paradigm.Based on Experiment 1,the baseline condition was changed to the target stimulus-neutral condition(target stimulus bound neutral word,distraction stimulus bound attack word),and the search stimulus was searched.Compared the two conditions that were completely opposite to the attention-biased binding relationship,and observed the influence of different stimulus attention bias on the background clue effect to the greatest extent.In addition,in order to verify the different attention bias of college students on high and low self-esteem level,in the second experiment,some high self-esteem college students were selected through the questionnaire survey to explore the contextual cueing effect of offensive clues on them;Experiment 3 used the spatial cue contextual cueing effect paradigm to explore the deep mechanism of the low self-esteem college students’ aggressive attention bias affecting contextual cueing effect.The study concluded with the following conclusions:(1)The low self-esteem college students’ attention to the attack of target words can be weaker and easier to learn the background clue effect.(2)When the offensive cues are bound to the distracting stimuli,the low self-esteem level college students can’t learn the contextual cueing effect;by screening the high self-esteem level college students,the repeated experiments show that the high self-esteem college students’ learning of contextual cueing effect is not easily affected by aggressive clues.(3)The distraction of distraction stimuli may be the cause of low self-esteem college students unable to acquire the contextual cueing effect under the target stimulus-neutral condition.