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Deontic signs increase control monitoring: Evidence from a modified traffic flanker task
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Deontic norms are expected to impose individuals’ control over their behavior. In this paper, we address such norms presented
in trafc signs and test their infuence over executive control functions. For Experiment 1, we develop a trafc fanker task
in which the typical neutral arrows are replaced with trafc prohibition/obligation signs. Experiment 2 isolated the deontic
aspect of the signs using simple arrows on red, blue, and green backgrounds and either primed them to be interpreted as trafc
signs or as elements of a gaming console controller. Results in both studies show evidence of controlling context interferences
more efciently when dealing with deontic (trafc) signs than with simple arrows (Experiment 1) or with similar perceptive
targets when primed with a deontic context than with a gaming context (Experiment 2). In both studies, obligation/blue signs
mitigate fanker efects less than prohibition/red signs. Stimuli color afects the alertness of the cognitive system, with the
color red being, by itself, a cue for increased control. Based on temporal analysis, we further discuss these results as evidence
of an increase in proactive control that aims to prevent the occurrence of undesirable infuence.
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Trafc signs Deontic norms Flanker task Cognitive control
Citation
Garcia-Marques, T., Figueira, P., Fernandes, A., & Martins, J. (2023). Deontic signs increase control monitoring: Evidence from a modified traffic flanker task. Cognitive Processing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-023-01139-z
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Springer Verlag