1986
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843x.95.1.15
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Attentional bias in emotional disorders.

Abstract: Recent research has suggested that anxiety may be associated with processing biases that favor the encoding of emotionally threatening information. However, the available data can be accommodated by alternative explanations, including response bias accounts. The current study introduces a novel paradigm that circumvents such interpretative problems by requiring subjects to make a neutral response (button press) to a neutral stimulus (visual dot probe). The position of this dot probe was manipulted on a VDU (vi… Show more

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“…Implicit cognitive processes can be measured with several indirect or implicit tasks. For example, an approach bias can be assessed with the Stimulus Response Compatibility task (De Houwer et al., 2001) and with the Approach Avoidance Task (Rinck and Becker, 2007), implicit memory associations with the Implicit Association Task (Greenwald et al., 1998), and attentional bias with the Visual Probe Test (VPT; MacLeod et al., 1986). In addition, recent research has demonstrated that these processes may be directly targeted with interventions that are collectively called Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM).…”
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“…Implicit cognitive processes can be measured with several indirect or implicit tasks. For example, an approach bias can be assessed with the Stimulus Response Compatibility task (De Houwer et al., 2001) and with the Approach Avoidance Task (Rinck and Becker, 2007), implicit memory associations with the Implicit Association Task (Greenwald et al., 1998), and attentional bias with the Visual Probe Test (VPT; MacLeod et al., 1986). In addition, recent research has demonstrated that these processes may be directly targeted with interventions that are collectively called Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM).…”
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“…In line with this evidence most researchers probe for initial allocation of attention at 500ms (e.g. Macleod, Mathews, & Tata, 1986;Mogg & Bradley, 1999;Chen, Ehlers, Clark, & Mansell, 2002;Egloff & Hock, 2003). However, while sampling the allocation of attention at the 500ms time window may reflect the initial orienting of overt attention (i.e.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…identification or localisation) and the distribution of spatial attention between the initially presented stimulus pair is inferred by comparing the speed of manual responses to the probe at each of the stimulus locations (following Posner, Snyder, & Davidson, 1980;Navon & Margalit, 1983). This procedure was initially developed to measure attentional biases to threat in clinically anxious populations (Macleod, Mathews, & Tata, 1986); however, its use has extended to many areas where attentional biases have been observed e.g. people with eating disorders (e.g.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…incongruent trials). Higher scores indicate a stronger attentional bias for negative words (MacLeod et al, 1986).…”
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confidence: 99%