Attention to threat in high and low trait-anxious individuals: A study using extremely threatening pictorial cues

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	Attention to threat in high and low trait-anxious individuals: A study using extremely threatening pictorial cues
	Li, Xinying; Wang, Min ; Poltakoff, Ellen ; Luo, Yuejia
摘要	Previous research suggested that individuals with high trait anxiety have difficulties disengaging their attention from threatening cues, whereas those with low trait anxiety have no such attentional bias. However, according to some cognitive models of threat-related attention, low anxious people should show the same pattern as high anxious people when the threat value is large enough. To test this hypothesis, extremely threatening pictures were used as predictive location cues in a cue-target task. Neutral pictures were included as controls. 15 High Anxious participants and 17 Low Anxious participants were selected from 213 volunteers who all were police veterans. Analysis showed that threat cues produced greater facilitation effects than neutral cues, but this was not modulated by anxiety. This suggests that both high and low anxious individuals may have difficulties disengaging their attention from threat-cued locations when the threat value is large enough.; Previous research suggested that individuals with high trait anxiety have difficulties disengaging their attention from threatening cues, whereas those with low trait anxiety have no such attentional bias. However, according to some cognitive models of threat-related attention, low anxious people should show the same pattern as high anxious people when the threat value is large enough. To test this hypothesis, extremely threatening pictures were used as predictive location cues in a cue-target task. Neutral pictures were included as controls. 15 High Anxious participants and 17 Low Anxious participants were selected from 213 volunteers who all were police veterans. Analysis showed that threat cues produced greater facilitation effects than neutral cues, but this was not modulated by anxiety. This suggests that both high and low anxious individuals may have difficulties disengaging their attention from threat-cued locations when the threat value is large enough.
关键词	selective attention emotional disorders anxiety bias
学科领域	认知心理学 ; 情绪心理学 ; 人格心理学
	2007-06-01
语种	英语
发表期刊	PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS
ISSN	0031-5125
卷号	104 期号:3 页码:1097-1106
期刊论文类型	Article
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000249136300007
引用统计	被引频次：2[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/5205
专题	中国科学院心理研究所回溯数据库(1956-2010)
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Mental Hlth, Beijing 100864, Peoples R China 2.Clin Chinese Peoples Armed Police Forces, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Manchester, Sch Psychol Sci, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England 4.Beijing Normal Univ, State Key Lab Cognit Neurosci & Learning, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Xinying,Wang, Min,Poltakoff, Ellen,et al. Attention to threat in high and low trait-anxious individuals: A study using extremely threatening pictorial cues[J]. PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS,2007,104(3):1097-1106.
APA	Li, Xinying,Wang, Min,Poltakoff, Ellen,&Luo, Yuejia.(2007).Attention to threat in high and low trait-anxious individuals: A study using extremely threatening pictorial cues.PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS,104(3),1097-1106.
MLA	Li, Xinying,et al."Attention to threat in high and low trait-anxious individuals: A study using extremely threatening pictorial cues".PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS 104.3(2007):1097-1106.