Distinguishing the roles of trait and state anxiety on the nature of anxiety-related attentional biases to threat using a free viewing eye movement paradigm

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 504-526

  Nelson, Andrea L ^a   Purdon, Christine ^a   Quigley, Leanne ^b   Carriere, Jonathan ^a   Smilek, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Eye movements; State anxiety; Threat; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIVALENCE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS SCALE; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MARLOWE-CROWNE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; YOUNG ADULT; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANXIETY; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922216998     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2014.922460     Document Type: Article

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