The effects of different reward types on the attention capture of non-target emotional faces

To investigate the impact of different reward types on the attention capture effect of non-target emotional faces, this study recruited 40 healthy college students and used a visual discrimination task to explore the attention capture effect. The results showed that the main effect of reward type was significant (F[1,39] = 4.352, p = 0.044), with reaction times being significantly longer under monetary rewards compared to social rewards. The main effect of emotion was not significant (p> 0.05), and the interaction between reward type and emotion was also not significant (p> 0.05). The study indicates that both monetary and social rewards can effectively regulate cognitive resource allocation, but social rewards are more effective in inhibiting the attention capture effect of non-target emotional faces.