This study aims to explore whether the implicit processing of emotional symbols related to patriotic feeling may exert some effects on attention. Here, we have conducted an experiment using two interrelated tasks. First, we use flags with different meanings to participants for measuring the strength of the emotional attentional blink (EAB) within a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm. Then, we use a “congruency judgments” subjective test, where we confront participants to judge the affinity between pairs of politician leaders and flags of different sign for community participants, while recording two physiological measures (Heart Rate Variance and Galvanic Skin Response) to evaluate the variations elicited by that confrontation. Results on the EAB task show a significant emotion induced blindness for emotional stimuli representing Catalan and Spanish patriotism (α = .05), while the effect does not appear for the stimulus representing neutral patriotism. The interaction “Flags x Patriotism” was significant, F(1, 51) = 4.62; p = .036; ηp2 = .083. Results on the second task show that measures derived from electrophysiological records are sensitive to patriotic feeling, both being complementary. In addition, by using measures of congruence, the “Leaders x Flags” interaction was significant, F(3.682, 125.204) = 53.55; p < .001; ηp2 = .612. Finally, a multiple linear regression model for each emotional inductor was verified for the Catalan case, using the EAB effect as criteria, R2Adjusted = .79; p < .001. Some theoretical and methodological aspects derived of this exploratory study are discussed.

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情绪注意眨眼作为爱国主义的衡量标准

本研究旨在探讨与爱国情感相关的情感符号的内隐加工是否会对注意力产生一定的影响。在这里，我们使用两个相互关联的任务进行了实验。首先，我们使用对参与者具有不同含义的标志来测量快速串行视觉呈现 (RSVP) 范式中情绪注意瞬变 (EAB) 的强度。然后，我们使用“一致性判断”主观测试，我们与参与者面对面判断政治领袖对和社区参与者不同标志的旗帜之间的亲和力，同时记录两个生理指标（心率变异和皮肤电反应）来评估那次对抗引起的变化。EAB 任务的结果显示，对于代表加泰罗尼亚和西班牙爱国主义的情绪刺激（α = .05），情绪导致明显的失明，而对于代表中性爱国主义的刺激则没有出现这种效果。“旗帜 x 爱国主义”的互动意义重大，F(1, 51) = 4.62;p= .036; ηp2= .083。第二项任务的结果表明，来自电生理记录的测量对爱国情感很敏感，两者是相辅相成的。此外，通过使用一致性测量，“Leaders x Flags”交互作用显着，F(3.682, 125.204) = 53.55；p< .001; ηp2= .612。最后，针对加泰罗尼亚语案例验证了每个情绪感应器的多元线性回归模型，使用 EAB 效应作为标准，R2调整后= .79;p< .001。讨论了这项探索性研究得出的一些理论和方法论方面。