A Review of Relationships Between Attention and Emotion

Abstract

Attention is crucially important in deciding human activities, such as rewards and emotions. However, attention itself does not dominate the whole authority. Well engaged with emotions, attention can produce a completely different result. Over recent decades, the relationship between emotion and attention has been well investigated. This paper will investigate and analyze different studies understanding of the interaction between attention and emotion. First, theories considering the relationship between attention and emotion will be introduced. This would provide insight into how proven theories view the relationship between the two subjects. Next, several studies, together with their methodology and results, would be presented. The studies commendably proved hypothetical guesses about how attention and emotion may affect each other.