Evidence for perceptual defense uncontaminated by response bias.

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This paper describes an experimental procedure which tends to minimize differences in response bias for neutral and anxiety-arousing words and presents some evidence of poorer recognition for anxiety-arousing than for neutral words unaccounted for by differences in response bias. When an anxiety-arousing or neutral word is presented tachistoscopically S must choose his response, respectively, from a pair of anxiety-arousing words or a pair of neutral words. For a stimulus duration of .03 sec. a poorer accuracy of recognition for anxiety-arousing words is found in the absence of a differential response bias between the 2 classes of words. With repeated exposures to the words, this perceptual defense effect is found to decline to nonsignificant levels. Extreme groups with respect to scores on personality scales provide unexpected results. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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