Distractor devaluation effect is an attentional inhibition that occurs during discrimination tasks leads to the negative evaluation of distractor stimuli.
In other words, when we are inhibited from finding what we are looking for (for example a familiar face in a crowded scene), we perceive the other faces (distractions) more negatively.
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