Anxiety Enhances Threat Processing Without Competition Among Multiple Inputs: A Diffusion Model Analysis

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 662-677

  White, Corey N ^a   Ratcliff, Roger ^a   Vasey, Michael W ^a   McKoon, Gail ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Diffusion model; Lexical decision; Processing competition; Threat bias

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEXICAL DECISION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT;

ANXIETY; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78249235901     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019474     Document Type: Article

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