Meanings of affective stimuli in English

PCGPs showed an attentional bias toward both game-related and affective stimuli with positive valence.

Psychopathic criminals also showed evidence of overactivation in the bilateral fronto-temporal cortex for processing affective stimuli.

Anxiety disorders are associated with heightened response to negative affective stimuli in the brain networks that underlie emotion processing.

Overall, our findings demonstrated sex-dependent deficits in response to negative affective stimuli increasing as a function of dysphoric mood state.

Participants were 109 cigarette smokers who rated a series of affective stimuli to assess reactions to positive and negative pictures.

Individual differences in the evaluation of affective stimuli, such as the positivity offset and negativity bias may have a biological basis.

Method: Fifty-two 3-6 year old children completed an assessment of attention regulation in response to affective stimuli.

This practice may limit our ability to fully capture variance from acute responses to negative affective stimuli to psychopathology at the extreme end.