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  • Title: Blind jealousy? Romantic insecurity increases emotion-induced failures of visual perception.
    Author: Most SB, Laurenceau JP, Graber E, Belcher A, Smith CV.
    Journal: Emotion; 2010 Apr; 10(2):250-6. PubMed ID: 20364901.
    Abstract:
    Does the influence of close relationships pervade so deeply as to impact visual awareness? Results from two experiments involving heterosexual romantic couples suggest that they do. Female partners from each couple performed a rapid detection task where negative emotional distractors typically disrupt visual awareness of subsequent targets; at the same time, their male partners rated attractiveness first of landscapes, then of photos of other women. At the end of both experiments, the degree to which female partners indicated uneasiness about their male partner looking at and rating other women correlated significantly with the degree to which negative emotional distractors had disrupted their target perception during that time. This relationship was robust even when controlling for individual differences in baseline performance. Thus, emotions elicited by social contexts appear to wield power even at the level of perceptual processing.
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