Karen D. Rudolph

To examine whether need for approval (NFA) and antisocial behavior (ASB) moderate the effects of socioemotional stimuli on cognitive control, 88 girls ( M age = 16.31 years; SD = 0.84; 65.9% White) completed a socioemotional Go/No‐go and questionnaires. At high approach NFA, girls responded more slowly during appetitive than control ( b = −8.80, p < .01) and aversive ( b = −5.58, p = .01) trials. At high ASB, girls responded more slowly ( b = −6.12, p = .02) and less accurately (OR = 1.11, p = .03) during appetitive than aversive trials; at low ASB, girls responded more slowly during aversive than control trials ( b = −4.42, p = .04). Thus, both context and individual differences influence adolescents' cognitive control.