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SUBMITTER: Steenhaut P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6532912 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Steenhaut Priska P Demeyer Ineke I Rossi Gina G De Raedt Rudi R
PloS one 20190523 5
Older adults have been found to focus more on positive and less on negative information compared to younger adults. Yet, results on this attentional positivity effect are inconsistent. Since personality has been related to attentional processing in younger adults, we explored whether (mal)adaptive personality traits are also linked to the occurrence of the positivity effect measured with eye tracking paradigms. We performed two studies with different experimental tasks and recruited for each stu ...[more]