Despite an initial focus on negative threatening stimuli, researchers have more recently expanded the investigation of attentional biases toward positive rewarding stimuli. The …
VK Jaswal, N Akhtar - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019 - cambridge.org
Progress in psychological science can be limited by a number of factors, not least of which are the starting assumptions of scientists themselves. We believe that some influential …
Background and objectives: Prior research suggests that altering situation-specific evaluations of stress as challenging versus threatening can improve responses to stress …
A large body of research has demonstrated that affective disorders are characterized by attentional biases for emotional stimuli. However, this research relies heavily on manual …
K Mogg, BP Bradley - Behaviour research and therapy, 2016 - Elsevier
Anxiety disorders are common and difficult to treat. Some cognitive models of anxiety propose that attention bias to threat causes and maintains anxiety. This view led to the …
Context Cognitive theories of anxiety-and fear-related pathology suggest that individuals with these forms of pathology (versus those without) exhibit greater threat-related attentional …
Prominent cognitive theories postulate that an attentional bias toward threatening information contributes to the etiology, maintenance, or exacerbation of fear and anxiety. In …
EA Holman, DR Garfin, P Lubens… - Clinical Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Media exposure to collective trauma is associated with acute stress (AS) and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). Qualities of media exposure (eg, amount, graphic features) …
The rapid and efficient selection of emotionally salient or goal-relevant stimuli in the environment is crucial for flexible and adaptive behaviors. Converging data from …