The Influence Of Security On Cognitive Bias

Security is important to the development of individuals and society.Studies have shown that the security plays an important role in the individual's mental health and interpersonal communication.People with a lack of security are prone to psychological problems such as anxiety and depression.Security affects the individual's cognitive processing and social adaptation.Individuals with a lack of security are more likely to interpret external stimuli as threatening and unsafe.At present,there are few studies about the relationship between security and cognitive processing in China.Understanding the relationship between security and cognitive processing can better intervene and adjust the adverse effects caused by lack of security.This study conducts an integrated study of security from the three cognitive stages of attention,memory and interpretation,and explores the cognitive processing bias characteristics of individuals with different sense of security.This study consists of three experiments.Experiment 1 uses an adapted version of dot probe paradigm to examine whether individuals with different levels of security have a bias toward different types of emotional vocabulary.The experimental results showed that the response of the high-safety test subjects under positive and consistent conditions was slower than that under the positive inconsistency conditions,and the low-safety test subjects were less reactive under negative consistent conditions than under negative inconsistencies.It shows that individuals with high security have shown attention bias to positive emotional words,while individuals with low security have shown attention bias to negative emotional words.After adding the neutral condition as the baseline condition,it was found that the response of the high-safety subject under positive and consistent conditions was significantly less than that of the neutral condition,and the response of the low-safety test under the negative consensus condition was significantly longer than that of the neutral condition.The results show that the positive attention bias of individuals with high security is due to alertness,and the negative attention bias of individuals with low security is difficult due to attention.Experiment 2 uses memory-recognition experimental paradigm to examine whether individuals with different levels of security have memory bias toward different types of emotional faces.The experimental results show that there is a significant difference between the high-security group and the low-security group in recognizing positive,neutral,and negative emotion faces.The positive emotion face of the high-sense test subjects had the highest correct rate of recognition,and the low-security test subjects had the highest correct rate of recognition for negative emotion faces.It shows that individuals with high security have positive memory bias,while individuals with low security have negative memory bias.Experiment 3 uses the fuzzy situational experimental paradigm to examine the interpretation bias characteristics of the ambiguous social situations of individuals with different levels of security.The results of the experiment found that in the ambiguous social context,high-security subjects tend to make positive explanations,and low-security subjects tend to make negative explanations.It shows that individuals with high security feel positive bias,while individuals with low security tend to make negative interpretation bias.Conclusion: High-security individuals have attention bias,memory bias and interpretation bias in positive information,they show the positive cognitive bias;Low-security individuals have attention bias,memory bias and interpretation bias on negative information,they show the negative cognition bias.