Affiliative stimuli as primers to prosocial predispositions.

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2012
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Affiliative stimuli are pleasant and highly biologically relevant. Affiliative cues are thought to elicit a prosocial predisposition. Here affiliative and neutral pictures were exposed prior to a reaction time task which consisted in responding to a visual target. Half the participants responded with finger-flexion, a movement frequently involved in prosocial activities. The other half responded with finger extension, a less prosocially compatible movement. Results showed that under the exposure to affiliative pictures, as compared to neutral ones, participants who used finger flexion were faster, while those using finger extension were slower. Performance benefits to the task, when flexing the finger, together with performance costs, when extending it, indicate the relevance of movement compatibility to the context. These findings put forward a possible link between affiliative primers and motor preparation to facilitate a repertoire of movements related to prosocial predispositions including finger flexion.
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Affiliative, Emotion, Motor predisposition, Reaction time
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SOUZA, G. G. L. de et al. Affiliative stimuli as primers to prosocial predispositions. The Spanish Journal of Psychology , v. 15, p. 237-243, 2012. Disponível em: <https://goo.gl/bGA1PI>. Acesso em: 19 fev. 2017.