By Associate Professor Steven Benjamin Most

Book Chapters

Most SB, 2014, 'The regulation of vision: How motivation and emotion shape what we see', in Forgas JP; Harmon-Jones E (ed.), Motivation and Its Regulation: The Control Within, Psychology Press, New York, NY, pp. 153 - 168

Most SB, 2013, 'Inattentional blindness', in Pashler H (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Mind, Sage Publications, Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 403 - 406, http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book230537

Most SB, 2009, 'Attention and emotion', in Goldstein EB (ed.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Perception, pp. 116 - 119

Most SB, 2009, 'Emotional influences on perception', in Goldstein EB (ed.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Perception, pp. 390 - 393

Gray JR; Schaefer A; Braver TS; Most SB, 2005, 'Affect and the resolution of cognitive control dilemmas', in Barrett LF; Niedenthal P; Winkielman P (ed.), Emotion and consciousness, pp. 67 - 94

Journal articles

Sivananthan T; Most SB; Curby KM, 2024, 'Mimicking Facial Expressions Facilitates Working Memory for Stimuli in Emotion-Congruent Colours', Vision (Switzerland), 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vision8010004

Kennedy BL; Most SB; Grootswagers T; Bowden VK, 2024, 'Memory benefits when actively, rather than passively, viewing images', Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 86, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02814-1

Johnson ST; Most SB, 2023, 'Taking the path of least resistance now, but not later: Pushing cognitive effort into the future reduces effort discounting', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 30, pp. 1115 - 1124, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02198-7

Moeck EK; Zhao JL; Most SB; Thomas NA; Takarangi MKT, 2023, 'Emotional stimuli similarly disrupt attention in both visual fields', Cognition and Emotion, 37, pp. 633 - 649, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2187353

Onie S; MacLeod C; Most SB, 2022, 'Gone for Good: Lack of Priming Suggests Early Perceptual Interference in Emotion-Induced Blindness With Negative Stimuli', Emotion, 23, pp. 1869 - 1875, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0001170

Moeck EK; Mortlock J; Onie S; Most SB; Koval P, 2022, 'Blinded by and Stuck in Negative Emotions: Is Psychological Inflexibility Across Different Domains Related?', Affective Science, 3, pp. 836 - 848, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00145-2

Le Pelley ME; Ung R; Mine C; Most SB; Watson P; Pearson D; Theeuwes J, 2022, 'Reward learning and statistical learning independently influence attentional priority of salient distractors in visual search', Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84, pp. 1446 - 1459, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02426-7

Smith VM; Watson P; Most SB, 2022, 'Enhanced recognition of emotional images is not affected by post-exposure exercise-induced arousal', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75, pp. 1056 - 1066, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17470218211054950

Newman VE; Yee HF; Walker AR; Toumbelekis M; Most SB, 2021, 'Out of fright, out of mind: impaired memory for information negated during looming threat', Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00302-4

Onie S; Most SB, 2021, 'On the Relative Sensitivity of Spatial and Nonspatial Measures of Attentional Bias: Emotion-Induced Blindness, the Dot Probe, and Gradations in Ratings of Negative Pictures', Emotion, 22, pp. 1942 - 1951, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000855

Most SB; Curby KM, 2021, 'A bridge to progress further afield: The promise of a common framework on attentional capture', Visual Cognition, 29, pp. 567 - 570, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1912238

Onie S; Peterson MA; Le Pelley M; Most SB, 2021, 'Learned value and predictiveness affect gaze but not figure assignment', Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 83, pp. 156 - 172, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02125-9

Mine C; Most SB; Le Pelley ME, 2021, 'Reward does not modulate the preview benefit in visual search', Visual Cognition, 29, pp. 248 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1895941

Onie S; Donkin C; Most S, 2021, 'Does a Single Session of Training Modify Emotion-Induced Blindness?', , http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5j4sf

Moeck E; Thomas N; Most S; Zhao J; Takarangi M, 2020, 'Emotion Induced Blindness in the Left and Right Visual Field', Journal of Vision, 20, pp. 1660 - 1660, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.11.1660

Grootswagers T; Kennedy BL; Most SB; Carlson TA, 2020, 'Neural signatures of dynamic emotion constructs in the human brain', Neuropsychologia, 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.10.016

Onie S; Gong S; Manwaring E; Grageda D; Webb K; Yuen WS; Most SB, 2020, 'Validation of the Australian beverage picture set: A controlled picture set for cognitive bias measurement and modification paradigms', Australian Journal of Psychology, 72, pp. 223 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajpy.12272

Guilbert D; Most SB; Curby KM, 2020, 'Real world familiarity does not reduce susceptibility to emotional disruption of perception: evidence from two temporal attention tasks', Cognition and Emotion, 34, pp. 450 - 461, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1637333

Watson P; Pearson D; Theeuwes J; Most SB; Le Pelley ME, 2020, 'Delayed disengagement of attention from distractors signalling reward', Cognition, 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104125

Newman VE; Liddell BJ; Beesley T; Most SB, 2020, 'Failures of executive function when at a height: Negative height-related appraisals are associated with poor executive function during a virtual height stressor', Acta Psychologica, 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.102984

Onie S; MacLeod C; Most S, 2020, 'Gone for Good: Lack of Priming Suggests Early Perceptual Interference in Emotion-Induced Blindness', , http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c8hme

Onie S; Peterson M; Le Pelley M; Most S, 2020, 'Learned Value and Predictiveness affect Gaze but not Figure Assignment', , http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jc86k

Onie S; Most S, 2020, 'On the relative sensitivity of spatial and non-spatial measures of attentional bias: Emotion-induced blindness, the dot probe, and gradations in ratings of negative pictures', , http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jw7z6

Watson P; Pearson D; Most SB; Theeuwes J; Wiers RW; Le Pelley ME, 2019, 'Attentional capture by Pavlovian reward-signalling distractors in visual search persists when rewards are removed', PLoS ONE, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226284

Watson P; Pearson D; Chow M; Theeuwes J; Wiers RW; Most SB; Le Pelley ME, 2019, 'Capture and Control: Working Memory Modulates Attentional Capture by Reward-Related Stimuli', Psychological Science, 30, pp. 1174 - 1185, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797619855964

Le Pelley ME; Watson P; Pearson D; Abeywickrama RS; Most SB, 2019, 'Winners and losers: Reward and punishment produce biases in temporal selection', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 45, pp. 822 - 833, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000612

Zhao JL; Most SB, 2019, 'Manipulations of distractor frequency do not mitigate emotion-induced blindness', Cognition and Emotion, 33, pp. 442 - 451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1459490

Kimonis E; Kidd J; Most S; Krynen A; Liu C, 2019, 'An elusive deficit: Psychopathic personality traits and aberrant attention to emotional stimuli', Emotion, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000601

Onie S; Notebaert L; Clarke P; Most S, 2019, 'Investigating the Effects of Inhibition Training on Attentional Bias Change: A Simple Bayesian Approach', Frontiers in Psychology, 9, pp. 2782, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02782

Gutiérrez-Cobo M; Luque D; Most S; Fernández-Berrocal P; Le Pelley M, 2019, 'Reward and emotion influence attentional bias in rapid serial visual presentation', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, pp. 2155 - 2167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747021819840615

Onie S; Gong S; Manwaring E; Webb K; Grageda D; Yuen WS; Most S, 2019, 'Validation of the Australian Beverage Picture Set: A Controlled Picture Set for Cognitive Bias Measurement and Modification Paradigms', , http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tuj2y

Jin M; Onie S; Curby K; Most S, 2018, 'Aversive images cause less perceptual interference among violent video game players: Evidence from emotion-induced blindness', Visual Cognition, 26, pp. 753 - 763, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2018.1553223

Kennedy BL; Newman VE; Most SB, 2018, 'Proactive Deprioritization of Emotional Distractors Enhances Target Perception', Emotion, 18, pp. 1052 - 1061, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000362

Kennedy BL; Pearson D; Sutton DJ; Beesley T; Most SB, 2018, 'Spatiotemporal competition and task-relevance shape the spatial distribution of emotional interference during rapid visual processing: Evidence from gaze-contingent eye-tracking', Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 80, pp. 426 - 438, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1448-9

Berenbaum H; Chow PI; Flores LE; Schoenleber M; Thompson RJ; Most SB, 2018, 'A test of the initiation–termination model of worry', Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043808718778965

Most SB; Kennedy BL; Petras EA, 2017, 'Evidence for improved memory from 5 minutes of immediate, post-encoding exercise among women', Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2, pp. 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-017-0068-1

Le Pelley ME; Seabrooke T; Kennedy BL; Pearson D; Most SB, 2017, 'Miss it and miss out: Counterproductive nonspatial attentional capture by task-irrelevant, value-related stimuli', Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 79, pp. 1628 - 1642, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1346-1

Onie S; Most SB, 2017, 'Two roads diverged: Distinct mechanisms of attentional bias differentially predict negative affect and persistent negative thought', Emotion, 17, pp. 884 - 894, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000280

Kennedy B; Pearson D; Sutton D; Beesley T; Most S, 2016, 'Affective penetration of vision: Behavioral and eye-tracking evidence that emotion helps shape perception', Journal of Vision, 16, pp. 1138 - 1138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/16.12.1138

Most SB, 2016, 'Beyond perceptual judgment: Categorization and emotion shape what we see', The Behavioral and brain sciences, 39, pp. e253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X15002514

Wang L; Most SB, 2016, 'The cost of seeing the meaning: Conceptual capture by distractors triggers localized target suppression', Visual Cognition, 24, pp. 473 - 486, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2017.1321076

Kennedy B; Most S, 2015, 'Proactive deprioritization of emotional distractors enhances target perception', Journal of Vision, 15, pp. 1344 - 1344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/15.12.1344

Kennedy BL; Most SB, 2015, 'The rapid perceptual impact of emotional distractors', PLoS ONE, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129320

Kennedy BL; Most SB, 2015, 'Affective stimuli capture attention regardless of categorical distinctiveness: An emotion-induced blindness study', Visual Cognition, 23, pp. 105 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2015.1024300

Pearson D; Donkin C; Tran SC; Most SB; Le Pelley ME, 2015, 'Cognitive control and counterproductive oculomotor capture by reward-related stimuli', Visual Cognition, 23, pp. 41 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2014.994252

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