Explicitly guided attentional bias modification promotes attentional disengagement from negative stimuli

Emotion

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 731-741

  Nishiguchi, Yuki ^a   Takano, Keisuke ^b,c   Tanno, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Attentional training; Explicit instruction; Negative information; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION TEST; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOT PROBE TASK; EFFECT SIZE; EMOTION; EXPLICITLY GUIDED ATTENTIONAL BIAS MODIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEGATIVE STIMULUS; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; EVALUATION STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTENTION; EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949723618     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0039117     Document Type: Article

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