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The Emotional Attentional Blink as a Measure of Patriotism

Publicated to:Spanish Journal Of Psychology. 23 (e30): e30-14 - 2020-01-01 23(e30), DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2020.32

Authors: Aznar-Casanova, Jose Antonio; Gavilan, Jose M; Moreno Sanchez, Manuel; Haro, Juan

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Univ Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Univ Rovira & Virgili, Tarragona, Spain - Author
Universitat de Barcelona - Author
Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Author

Abstract

This study aims to explore whether the implicit processing of emotional symbols related to patriotic feeling may exert some effects on attention. Here, we have conducted an experiment using two interrelated tasks. First, we use flags with different meanings to participants for measuring the strength of the emotional attentional blink (EAB) within a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm. Then, we use a congruency judgments subjective test, where we confront participants to judge the affinity between pairs of politician leaders and flags of different sign for community participants, while recording two physiological measures (Heart Rate Variance and Galvanic Skin Response) to evaluate the variations elicited by that confrontation. Results on the EAB task show a significant emotion induced blindness for emotional stimuli representing Catalan and Spanish patriotism (α = .05), while the effect does not appear for the stimulus representing neutral patriotism. The interaction Flags x Patriotism was significant, F(1, 51) = 4.62; p = .036; ηp2 = .083. Results on the second task show that measures derived from electrophysiological records are sensitive to patriotic feeling, both being complementary. In addition, by using measures of congruence, the Leaders x Flags interaction was significant, F(3.682, 125.204) = 53.55; p < .001; ηp2 = .612. Finally, a multiple linear regression model for each emotional inductor was verified for the Catalan case, using the EAB effect as criteria, R2Adjusted = .79; p < .001. Some theoretical and methodological aspects derived of this exploratory study are discussed.

Keywords
cognition-emotion relationshipemotional attentional blinkpatriotismrsvpAdultAttentional blinkCaptureCognition-emotion relationshipConsciousnessEmotional attentional blinkEmotionsFemaleGalvanic skin responseHeart rateHeart-rate-variabilityHumansMalePatriotismPhysiological measuresPoliticsRsvpSocial identificationSpainVisual perceptionYoung adult

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Spanish Journal Of Psychology due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2020, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Linguistics and Language.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-04-26:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 1
  • OpenCitations: 1
Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-04-26:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 13 (PlumX).

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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (Haro Rodriguez, Juan).