Inhibition in the emotional Hayling task: can hypnotic suggestion enhance cognitive control on a prepotent negative word?
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| Title: | Inhibition in the emotional Hayling task: can hypnotic suggestion enhance cognitive control on a prepotent negative word? |
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| Authors: | Brunel, Jeremy (AUTHOR), Delord, Sandrine (AUTHOR), Mathey, Stéphanie (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Cognition & Emotion. Nov2025, Vol. 39 Issue 7, p1635-1643. 9p. |
| Subjects: | Response inhibition, Emotion regulation, Affect (Psychology), Hypnotism, Control (Psychology), Emotion recognition |
| Abstract: | Recent studies suggest that instrumental hypnosis is a useful experimental tool to investigate emotional and language processing effects. However, the capacity of hypnotic suggestions to intervene during the response inhibition of emotional words remains elusive. This study investigated whether hypnotic suggestion can improve the inhibition of prepotent negative word responses in an emotional Hayling sentence completion task. High-suggestible participants performed a computerised emotional Hayling task. They were first asked to select the appropriate words ending highly predictable sentences among two propositions (initiation part), and then to select the filler words that did not end the sentences correctly (inhibition part). Half of the expected final words had a negative emotional valence, while the other half was neutral. The task was performed in a control condition (without suggestion) and with a hypnotic suggestion to decrease emotional reactivity. The results revealed that hypnotic suggestion (compared to the control condition) hastened response times on negative final words in the inhibition part, showing that hypnotic suggestion can enhance cognitive control over prepotent negative word responses in a sentence completion task. We suggest that this modulation stems from a reduction in the emotional relevance of the final words caused by the hypnotic suggestion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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