Concept information
Preferred term
Easterbrook's cue-utilization hypothesis
Definition
- The hypothesis that stress or high levels of emotional arousal cause a reduction in the amount of information a person can process simultaneously. As a result, attention is focused on the most salient, central cues at the expense of peripheral cues.
Broader concept
Entry terms
- attentional narrowing hypothesis
- cue-utilization hypothesis
- Easterbrook's hypothesis
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Easterbrook, J. A. (1959). The effect of emotion on cue utilization and the organization of behavior. Psychological Review, 66(3), 183–201. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0047707
[Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
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• Levine, L.J., & Edelstein, R.S. (2009). Emotion and memory narrowing: A review and goal-relevance approach. Cognition & Emotion, 23(5), 833–875. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930902738863
[Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
Creator
- Frank Arnould
In other languages
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French
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hypothèse d'Easterbrook
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hypothèse du rétrécissement attentionnel
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-X1VXS02G-J
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