期刊
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
卷 3, 期 5, 页码 758-771出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/2167702614545216
关键词
anxiety; attention; cognition and emotion; emotional processing biases; selective attention
资金
- Oxfordshire Health Services Research Committee [782]
- Wellcome Trust [064290/Z/01/Z]
- Advanced Investigator Award from the European Research Council [324176]
- European Research Council (ERC) [324176] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- ESRC [ES/K01031X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
A well-established literature has identified different selective attentional orienting mechanisms underlying anxietyrelated attentional bias, such as engagement and disengagement of attention. These mechanisms are thought to contribute to the onset and maintenance of anxiety disorders. However, conclusions to date have relied heavily on experimental work from subclinical samples. We therefore investigated individuals with diagnosed generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), healthy volunteers, and individuals with high trait anxiety (but not meeting GAD diagnostic criteria). Across two experiments we found faster disengagement from negative (angry and fearful) faces in GAD groups, an effect opposite to that expected on the basis of the subclinical literature. Together these data challenge current assumptions that we can generalize, to those with GAD, the pattern of selective attentional orienting to threat found in subclinical groups. We suggest a decisive two-stage experiment identifying stimuli of primary salience in GAD, then using these to reexamine orienting mechanisms across groups.
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