Love and hate do not modulate the attentional blink but improve overall performance*

Figures & data

Figure 1. Illustration of a typical trial in the experiment. There were 18 words in an RSVP which presented for 100 ms. A blank interval of 20 ms followed each word. The first target was the name participants provided and was displayed in uppercase. The second target was a single-word number. Participants needed to categorise the name, as well as recall the number, at the end of the word stream. The sample in this illustration shows that the second target displays at lag 2.

Table 1. Results for the simple effect analysis of lag as the function of block type and emotionality.

Block Type	Emotionality ofthe names	Contrastof Lag	Statistic coefficients					Mean (SE)
			β	SE	z	p	95% CI	Lag 1	Lag 2	Lag 7
Love-Neutral	Loved names	1 vs. 2	1.56	0.09	7.89	<.001	[1.39, 1.74]	0.834 (0.009)	0.763 (0.012)	0.888 (0.007)
		1 vs. 7	0.63	0.04	−6.90	<.001	[0.56, 0.72]
		2 vs. 7	0.41	0.02	−14.84	<.001	[0.36, 0.46]
	Neutral names	1 vs. 2	1.59	0.09	8.49	<.001	[1.43, 1.78]	0.816 (0.010)	0.736 (0.012)	0.877 (0.007)
		1 vs. 7	0.62	0.04	−7.35	<.001	[0.55, 0.71]
		2 vs. 7	0.39	0.02	−15.91	<.001	[0.35, 0.44]
Hate-Neutral	Hated names	1 vs. 2	1.58	0.09	8.23	<.001	[1.41, 1.76]	0.818 (0.010)	0.740 (0.012)	0.884 (0.007)
		1 vs. 7	0.59	0.04	−8.15	<.001	[0.52, 0.67]
		2 vs. 7	0.37	0.02	−16.48	<.001	[0.33, 0.42]
	Neutral names	1 vs. 2	1.86	0.10	11.23	<.001	[1.67, 2.07]	0.828 (0.010)	0.721 (0.012)	0.866 (0.008)
		1 vs. 7	0.74	0.05	−4.66	<.001	[0.65, 0.84]
		2 vs. 7	0.40	0.02	−15.77	<.001	[0.36, 0.45]

Figure 2. Estimated marginal mean accuracy of the second target under the condition that the first target was correctly categorised. The error bars represented the standard errors across each condition (Block Type × Emotionality × Lag). *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

Data availability statement

The design of the study, as well as the hypotheses and analysis plan, were pre-registered at the OSF (https://osf.io/twjb9/). All data, analysis code and research materials are available at the OSF (https://osf.io/em84y/).