Biased attentional engagement with, and disengagement from, negative information: Independent cognitive pathways to anxiety vulnerability?

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 245-259

  Rudaizky, Daniel ^a   Basanovic, Julian ^a   MacLeod, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional bias; Disengagement; Dot probe task; Engagement

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MALE; NEGATIVE INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891003880     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2013.815154     Document Type: Article

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