Trial reportPloS one2014
Dynamics of attentional bias to threat in anxious adults: bias towards and/or away?
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27 citing papers in PubMed.
- Randomized controlled trial of attention bias modification in a racially diverse, socially anxious, alcohol dependent sample.Behaviour research and therapy · 2016Trial
- Effect of Attention Training on Attention Bias Variability and PTSD Symptoms: Randomized Controlled Trials in Israeli and U.S. Combat Veterans.The American journal of psychiatry · 2015Trial
- When Threat Comes from Within: First Evidence that Anticipatory Emotion Impairs Working Memory.Affective science · 2026Article
- Many labels, shared threat processes: classifying domain-labelled anxieties by mechanism rather than context.Psychoradiology · 2026Review
- Preference for digital media use, biobehavioral attention bias, and anxiety symptoms in adolescents.Computers in human behavior reports · 2024Article
- Emotion and anxiety interact to bias spatial attention.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- When It's Not Worn on the Face: Trait Anxiety and Attention to Neutral Faces Semantically Linked to Threat.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Attention Bias and Anxiety: The Moderating Effect of Sociocultural Variables in Rural Latinx Youth.Community mental health journal · 2023Article
- A Combination of Green Tea, Rhodiola, Magnesium, and B Vitamins Increases Electroencephalogram Theta Activity During Attentional Task Performance Under Conditions of Induced Social Stress.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- The COVID-19 anxiety syndrome and selective attentional bias towards COVID-19-related stimuli in UK residents during the 2020-2021 pandemic.Clinical psychology & psychotherapy · 2021Article
- Recoiling from Threat: Anxiety is Related to Heightened Suppression of Threat, Not Increased Attention to Threat.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021Article
- Attentional variability and avoidance of hostile stimuli decrease aggression in Chinese male juvenile delinquents.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2021Article
- A Pictorial Dot Probe Task to Assess Food-Related Attentional Bias in Youth With and Without Obesity: Overview of Indices and Evaluation of Their Reliability.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The relationship between worry and attentional bias to threat cues signalling controllable and uncontrollable dangers.PloS one · 2021Article
- The stability and reliability of attentional bias measures in the dot-probe task: Evidence from both traditional mean bias scores and trial-level bias scores.Motivation and emotion · 2020Article
- Neural mechanisms underlying heterogeneous expression of threat-related attention in social anxiety.Behaviour research and therapy · 2020Article
- Neurocognitive predictors of self-reported reward responsivity and approach motivation in depression: A data-driven approach.Depression and anxiety · 2020Article
- Heterogeneity of the Anxiety-Related Attention Bias: A Review and Working Model for Future Research.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2019Article
- Dispositional negativity, cognition, and anxiety disorders: An integrative translational neuroscience framework.Progress in brain research · 2019Article
- Dynamic Measures of Anxiety-Related Threat Bias: Links to Stress Reactivity.Motivation and emotion · 2018Article
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Abstract
The aim of the present study was to question untested assumptions about the nature of the expression of Attentional Bias (AB) towards and away from threat stimuli. We tested the idea that high trait anxious individuals (N = 106; M(SD)age = 23.9(3.2) years; 68% women) show a stable AB towards multiple categories of threatening information using the emotional visual dot probe task. AB with respect to five categories of threat stimuli (i.e., angry faces, attacking dogs, attacking snakes, pointed weapons, violent scenes) was evaluated. In contrast with current theories, we found that 34% of participants expressed AB towards threat stimuli, 20.8% AB away from threat stimuli, and 34% AB towards some categories of threat stimuli and away from others. The multiple observed expressions of AB were not an artifact of a specific criterion AB score cut-off; not specific to certain categories of threat stimuli; not an artifact of differences in within-subject variability in reaction time; nor accounted for by individual differences in anxiety-related variables. Findings are conceptualized as reflecting the understudied dynamics of AB expression, with implications for AB measurement and quantification, etiology, relations, and intervention research.
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