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标题：Implicit Affect after Mental Imagery Introduction of a Novel Measure and Relations to Depressive Symptoms in a Non-Clinical Sample
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作者：Stefanie M. Görgen ; Jutta Joormann ; Wolfgang Hiller 等
期刊名称：Journal of Experimental Psychopathology
电子版ISSN：2043-8087
出版年度：2015
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：59-81
DOI：10.5127/jep.041114
语种：English
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：Mental imagery can critically influence our emotional state. In contrast to commonly used explicit measures, implicit measures are promising for objectively assessing automatic emotional processes beyond deliberate control. In two studies with non-clinical samples, we tested the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP) to measure implicit affect induced by mental imagery. In a first study (N = 145), the implicit measure showed that mental imagery elicits significantly stronger negative affect than verbally processed stimuli (F(1, 144) = 3.94, p≤.05, η2p = 03). In Study 2 (N = 71), we refined the implicit measure and found that mental images can induce implicit affective reactions at least as strong as pictures. Moreover, implicit affect after positive imagery was negatively related to depressive symptoms (r = –.26, p<.05) and explained incremental variance in depressive symptoms beyond explicitly assessed affect. Our studies suggest that the AMP represents a promising measure of implicit affect induced by mental images.
关键词：mental imagery; depression; implicit measure; affect misattribution procedure (AMP); implicit affect