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BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY
卷 43, 期 8, 页码 1087-1098出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2004.08.004
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selective attention; time-course; threat; anxiety; avoidance
Cognitive studies about anxiety suggest that the interplay between automatic and strategic biases in attention to threat is related to the persistence of fear. In the present study, the time-course of attention to pictures with varying threat levels was investigated in high trait anxious (HTA, n = 21) and low trait anxious (LTA, n = 22) students. In a visual probe detection task, high and mild threat pictures were presented at three durations: 100. 500, and 1250 ms. Results indicated that all individuals attended to the high threat pictures for the 100 ms condition. Differential responding between HTA and LTA individuals was found for the 500 ms condition: only HTA individuals showed an attentional bias for mild threatening stimuli. For the 1250 ms condition, the HTA individuals attended away from high and mild threat pictures. The observed pattern of differential attention to threatening pictures may explain the persistence of fear in HTA individuals. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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