Erratum

Abstract

van Steenbergen, Henk, Band, Guido P.H., & Hommel, Bernhard. (2009). Reward Counteracts Conflict Adaptation: Evidence for a Role of Affect in Executive Control. Psychological Science, 20(12), 1473–1477. (Original DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02470.x)

An error in the BIS/BAS scale calculation resulted in the incorrect publication of a reversed score and correlation. To represent the data correctly, the values on the horizontal axis of Figure 1 should have run from 16 to 4, and the figure caption should have reported “r = .576.” The sentence on p. 1475 that reads “individual BAS Drive scores . . . strongly predicted a gain-induced decrease in conflict adaptation (r = −.576 . . .)” should have stated, “individual BAS Drive scores . . . strongly predicted a gain-induced increase in conflict adaptation (r = .576 . . .).” On p. 1476, after “These findings suggest a dominant modulating role for the motivational rather than the hedonic aspect of reward, which presumably involves dopamine (Berridge & Robinson, 2003),” the following sentence should have been added: “However, because the direction of this motivation modulation was opposite to the main compensatory effect of reward on conflict-driven control, the presumed role of dopamine in this modulation needs further study.”