Attentional Bias of Individuals in Adulthood with Disabilities for Different Types of Social Cues

To investigate attentional bias of individuals in adulthood with disabilities for different types of social cues,the present study applied emotional Stroop task and odd-one-out search task to investigate attentional bias of individuals in adulthood with disabilities for social feedback speech cues and social feedback emotion cues through two experiments with normal people as a control group. The results indicate that:( 1) Individuals with disabilities named the color of socially rejected words faster than normal people. Namely,individuals with disabilities had more stronger attentional bias for negative social cues.( 2) Individuals with disabilities detected angry faces faster than normal people while normal people detected happy faces faster than individuals with disabilities. Namely,individuals with disabilities had more attentional sensitivities for negative social emotional cues while normal people had more attentional sensitivities for positive social emotional cues.( 3) Individuals with disabilities didn't have attentional disengagement for negative social emotional cues.