scholarly journals Look into my eyes: Pupillometry reveals that a post‐hypnotic suggestion for word blindness reduces Stroop interference by marshalling greater effortful control

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin A. Parris ◽  
Nabil Hasshim ◽  
Zoltan Dienes
Keyword(s):  
Effortful Control ◽  
Stroop Interference ◽  
Hypnotic Suggestion ◽  
Word Blindness

scholarly journals Strategies that reduce Stroop interference

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bence Palfi ◽  
Ben Parris ◽  
Anthony Collins ◽  
Zoltan Dienes
Keyword(s):  
Stroop Task ◽  
Stroop Interference ◽  
Compelling Evidence ◽  
Hypnotic Suggestion ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Visual Blurring ◽  
Word Blindness ◽  
Target Words

A remarkable example of reducing Stroop interference is provided by the word blindness post-hypnotic suggestion (a suggestion to see words as meaningless during the Stroop task). This suggestion has been repeatedly demonstrated to halve Stroop interference when it is given to highly hypnotisable individuals. In order to explore how highly hypnotisable people manage to reduce Stroop interference when they respond to the word blindness suggestion, we tested four candidate strategies in two experiments outside of the hypnotic context. A strategy of looking-away from the target words, and a strategy of visual blurring demonstrated compelling evidence for substantially reducing Stroop interference in both experiments. However, the pattern of results produced by these strategies did not match those of the word blindness suggestion. Crucially, neither looking-away nor visual blurring managed to speed up incongruent responses, suggesting that neither of these strategies are likely underlying mechanisms of the word blindness suggestion. Although the current results did not unravel the mystery of the word blindness suggestion, they showed that there are multiple voluntary ways through which participants can dramatically reduce Stroop interference.

scholarly journals Oxytocin impedes the effect of the word blindness post-hypnotic suggestion on Stroop task performance

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 895-899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin A. Parris ◽  
Zoltan Dienes ◽  
Sarah Bate ◽  
Stace Gothard
Keyword(s):  
Task Performance ◽  
Stroop Task ◽  
Hypnotic Suggestion ◽  
Word Blindness

scholarly journals Hypnotic Suggestion and the Modulation of Stroop Interference

2002 ◽  
Vol 59 (12) ◽  
pp. 1155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Raz ◽  
Theodore Shapiro ◽  
Jin Fan ◽  
Michael I. Posner
Keyword(s):  
Stroop Interference ◽  
Hypnotic Suggestion

Parenting Behaviors and Anxiety in Young Adults

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin N. Stevens ◽  
Joseph R. Bardeen ◽  
Kyle W. Murdock
Keyword(s):  
Effortful Control ◽  
Parenting Behaviors ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Parental Overprotection ◽  
High Control ◽  
Development Of Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship

Parenting behaviors – specifically behaviors characterized by high control, intrusiveness, rejection, and overprotection – and effortful control have each been implicated in the development of anxiety pathology. However, little research has examined the protective role of effortful control in the relation between parenting and anxiety symptoms, specifically among adults. Thus, we sought to explore the unique and interactive effects of parenting and effortful control on anxiety among adults (N = 162). Results suggest that effortful control uniquely contributes to anxiety symptoms above and beyond that of any parenting behavior. Furthermore, effortful control acted as a moderator of the relationship between parental overprotection and anxiety, such that overprotection is associated with anxiety only in individuals with lower levels of effortful control. Implications for potential prevention and intervention efforts which specifically target effortful control are discussed. These findings underscore the importance of considering individual differences in self-regulatory abilities when examining associations between putative early-life risk factors, such as parenting, and anxiety symptoms.

The Effects of Grouping and Selection on the Magnitude of Stroop Interference

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shai Danziger ◽  
Paloma Mari Beffa ◽  
Angeles Estevez
Keyword(s):  
Stroop Interference
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