Stressing the feedback: attention and cardiac vagal tone during a cognitive stress task.
Muhammad Abid AzamPaul RitvoSamantha R FashlerJoel D KatzPublished in: Cognition & emotion (2017)
Results demonstrate that pervasive attention to negative feedback ("Wrong") elicits perseverative stress and negative self-evaluations among university students. This study highlights the potential for studying attentional biases and emotional distress through combined measures of gaze behaviour and cardiac vagal tone.