Scientists have long been interested in understanding the influence of emotionally salient stimuli on attention and perception. One experimental paradigm that has shown great promise in demonstrating the effect of such stimuli is emotion-induced blindness. That is, when emotionally salient stimuli are presented in a rapid stream of stimuli, they produce impairments in the perception of task-relevant stimuli, even though they themselves are task irrelevant. This is known as emotion-induced blindness, and it is a profound and robust form of attentional bias. Here, we review the literature on emotion-induced blindness, such as identifying the types of stimuli that elicit it, and its temporal dynamics. We discuss the role of dimensional versus categorical approaches to emotion in relation to emotion-induced blindness. We also synthesize the work examining whether certain individuals, such as those high in anxiety versus psychopathy, succumb to emotion-induced blindness to different extents, and we discuss whether the deficit can be reduced or even abolished. We review the theoretical models that have been proposed to explain the phenomenon. Finally, we identify exciting questions for future research, and elucidate useful frameworks to guide future investigations.

长期以来，科学家们一直对了解情绪显着刺激对注意力和感知的影响感兴趣。一种在证明这种刺激的影响方面显示出巨大希望的实验范式是情绪诱发的失明。也就是说，当情绪显着的刺激以快速的刺激流呈现时，它们会在与任务相关的刺激的感知中产生障碍，即使它们本身与任务无关。这被称为情绪性失明，它是一种深刻而强大的注意力偏见形式。在这里，我们回顾了有关情绪性失明的文献，例如识别引发它的刺激类型及其时间动态。我们讨论了与情绪引起的失明相关的情绪维度与分类方法的作用。我们还综合了检查某些个体（例如那些高度焦虑与精神病态的个体）是否在不同程度上屈服于情绪引起的失明的工作，并讨论了是否可以减少甚至消除这种缺陷。我们回顾了为解释这一现象而提出的理论模型。最后，我们确定了未来研究的令人兴奋的问题，并阐明了有用的框架来指导未来的调查。