Moradi, Zargol and Duta, Mihaela and Hewstone, Miles and Yankouskaya, Alla and Enock, Florence and Humphreys, Glyn (2017) The rival doesn’t catch my eyes: In-group relevance modulates inhibitory control over anti-saccades. Visual Cognition. ISSN 1350-6285
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We examined the effects of in-group relevance on inhibitory control in anti-saccades. In Experiment 1, following a central coloured cue, football fans were instructed to look at the target on pro-saccade trials or its mirrored position on anti-saccade trials. The targets were badges of participants’ favourite football team (in-group), its closest rival, or a non-local neutral team. Our results revealed no significant differences on pro-saccade trials for in- versus out-groups. However, on anti-saccade trials participants made more directional errors for the in-group badge compared to the badges of the neutral and rival teams. Moreover, the percentage of directional errors to in-group stimuli on anti-saccade trials was positively correlated with satisfaction toward the participant’s own team. Experiment 2, with separate blocks of pro- and anti-saccade and simple stimuli replicated the results of Experiment 1. Experiment 3, was conducted to test the effects of familiarity on the performance in pro- and anti-saccade tasks using items with no group relevance. Our results revealed that familiarity of the items with no group relevance did not modulate inhibitory control in anti-saccade trials. Further, Experiment 4 showed that for participants who did not have any interest in football the performance in anti-saccades did not differ for different football teams. Overall, our findings suggest that under conditions of real-world intergroup rivalry in-group relevance modulates inhibitory control over anti-saccades. Future studies should seek to unravel the mechanisms contributing to the effects of group relevance on inhibitory control.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in Visual Cognition, April 2017, [copyright Taylor & Francis], available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13506285.2017.1310163?journalCode=pvis20 |
| Keywords: | Pro-saccade, anti-saccade, in-group, rival, directional error |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Alla Yankouskaya |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2017 11:30 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Nov 2017 11:30 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/2206 |
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