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| Title: |
Attentional bias in anxiety: A defective inhibition hypothesis |
| Author: |
Fox, Elaine |
| Appeared in: |
Cognition & emotion |
| Paging: | Volume 8 (1994) nr. 2 pages 165-195 |
| Year: |
1994-03-01 |
| Contents: |
Three experiments are reported which examine attentional bias in high trait-anxious, low trait-anxious, and repressor subjects. Measures of interference did not provide consistent results. However, negative priming effects suggested that high trait-anxious subjects had difficulty inhibiting threat-related information, as well as nonthreat-related distracting information under conditions of attentional search. There was some evidence that individuals with a repressive coping style were particularly efficient in inhibiting threat-related information. It is suggested that defective inhibition of distracting information may be an important mechanism in understanding the cognitive basis of anxiety. |
| Publisher: |
Psychology Press |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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