Preregistered Replication of “Affective Flexibility: Evaluative Processing Goals Shape Amygdala Activity”

Publication Date

9-2017

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Psychology

Keywords

Cognitive appraisal, Neuroimaging, Reproducibility, Amygdala, Emotions, Open data, Open materials, Preregistered

Abstract

The human amygdala is sensitive to stimulus characteristics, and growing evidence suggests that it is also responsive to cognitive framing in the form of evaluative goals. To examine whether different evaluations of stimulus characteristics shape amygdala activation, we conducted a preregistered replication of Cunningham, Van Bavel, and Johnsen’s (2008) study demonstrating flexible mapping of amygdala activation to stimulus characteristics, depending on evaluative goals. Participants underwent functional MRI scanning while viewing famous names under three conditions: They were asked to report their overall attitude toward each name, their positive associations only, or their negative associations only. We observed an interaction between condition and rating type, identified as the effect of interest in Cunningham et al. (2008). Specifically, postscan positivity, but not negativity, ratings predicted left amygdala activation when participants were asked to evaluate positive, but not negative, associations with the names. These results provide convergent evidence that cognitive framing, in the form of evaluative goals, can significantly alter whether amygdala activation indexes positivity or negativity.

Copyright Date

9-2017

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

All Rights Reserved
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Rights Holder

Daniel S. Lumian, Kateri McRae, and Sage Publications

Provenance

Received from author

Language

English (eng)

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the authors and Sage Publications. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. This article was originally published as:

Lumian, D. S., & McRae, K. (2017). Preregistered replication of "Affective flexibility: Evaluative processing goals shape amygdala activity." Psychological Science, 28(9), 1193-1200. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617719730

Publication Title

Psychological Science

Volume

28

Issue

9

First Page

1193

Last Page

1200

ISSN

1467-9280

PubMed ID

28793198

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