10 Neuroticism and affective priming Evidence for a neuroticism-linked negative schema外文电子书籍.pdfVIP

Personality and Individual Differences 42 (2007) 1221–1231 /locate/paid Neuroticism and affective priming: Evidence for a neuroticism-linked negative schema Michael D. Robinson a,*, Scott Ode a, Sara K. Moeller a, Paul W. Goetz b a Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA b Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403-001, USA Received 14 June 2006; received in revised form 13 September 2006; accepted 26 September 2006 Available online 15 November 2006 Abstract Neuroticism has been hypothesized to systematically relate to semantic memory networks favoring neg- ative affect, but no studies using affective priming tasks have established this link. The present two studies, involving 145 undergraduate participants, sought to provide initial evidence along these lines. Study 1 used a task in which participants were asked to judge their emotions in the past, whereas Study 2 used a percep- tual identification task in which participants merely had to identify the word in question. In both studies, neuroticism was positively correlated with negative affective priming, but not positive affective priming. The studies suggest that neuroticism systematically relates to the inter-connectivity of negative affect within semantic memory systems, whether involving the self-concept (Study 1) or not (Study 2). These results are novel and important in understanding individual differences in neuroticism and their affective process- ing correlates. 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Neuroticism; Negative affect; Priming; Cognition; Semantic memory * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 701 231 6312; fax: +1 7