title: Attentional bias for exercise-related images.
abstract: This research examined attentional bias toward exercise-related images using a visual probe task. It was hypothesized that more-active participants would display attentional bias toward the exercise-related images. The results showed that men displayed attentional bias for the exercise images. There was a significant interaction of activity level by gender, and simple slopes analysis showed that active women displayed attentional bias toward the exercise-related images and inactive women displayed attentional bias toward the control images. A similar analysis with explicit attention to the pictures as the outcome variable was not significant. These findings confirm that attention for exercise-related images can be captured automatically regardless of whether people report they are attending to them.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. tanya.berry@ualberta.ca
authors.forename: Tanya R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Berry
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Spence
authors.forename: Sean M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Stolp
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003463:Cues; D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D011287:Prejudice; D011930:Reaction Time; D012737:Sex Factors; D055815:Young Adult