Affect-congruent attention modulates generalized reward expectations
Fig 6
Affective modulation of relative looking time.
Average relative looking time to the affect-congruent cue (i.e., the low-value 25% cue for participants receiving a negative affect induction and the high-value 75% cue for participants receiving a positive affect induction) pre- versus post-affect induction. Data are plotted separately for compound probe trials (A) and simple probe trials (B). There was a significant increase in time looking at affect-congruent cues after the affect induction in compound probe trials (main effect of time; p < .05, denoted by *), but not in simple probe trials. Insets: data separated by affect-induction condition (red: positive affect; blue: negative affect). The affect by timepoint interaction was significant for simple probe trials (p < .05) but not for compound probe trials, though this interaction was driven by group differences in eye-gaze before the affect induction, and as such is of no interest. Error bars denote the standard error of the mean computed based on estimated marginal means from the linear mixed-effects analysis.