Selective attention to threat in the dot probe paradigm: differentiating vigilance and difficulty to disengage

Information Processing Biases and Anxiet

Information Processing Biases and Anxiety || Selective Attention to Threat in Childhood Anxiety: Evidence from Visual Probe Paradigms

✍ Hadwin, Julie A.; Field, Andy P. 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 802 KB

The efficiency of the attention system mediates individual differences in intelligence and emotional processing ). An attentional system that preferentially filters and selects negative, threatening, anxiogenic information is more likely to potentiate perceptions of threat and danger; activate a ran