Attentional Bias for Exercise-Related Images |
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Authors: | Tanya R Berry John C Spence Sean M Stolp |
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Institution: | Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation , University of Alberta |
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Abstract: | Abstract This research examined attentional bias toward exercise-related images using a visual probe task. It was hypothesized that more-active participants would display attentional bias toward the exercise-related images. The results showed that men displayed attentional bias for the exercise images. There was a significant interaction of activity level by gender, and simple slopes analysis showed that active women displayed attentional bias toward the exercise-related images and inactive women displayed attentional bias toward the control images. A similar analysis with explicit attention to the pictures as the outcome variable was not significant. These findings confirm that attention for exercise-related images can be captured automatically regardless of whether people report they are attending to them. |
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Keywords: | Exercise Implicit processes Visual probe |
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