Attentional biases towards threat: the concomitant presence of difficulty of disengagement and attentional avoidance in low trait anxious individuals

Attentional biases towards threat: the concomitant presence of difficulty of disengagement and attentional avoidance in low trait anxious individuals

Attentional biases toward threat (ABTs) have been described in high anxious individuals and in clinical samples whereas they have been rarely reported in non-clinical samples (Bar-Haim et al., 2007; Cisler and Koster, 2010). Three kinds of ABTs have been identified (facilitation, difficulty of disen...

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Main Authors: Laura eSagliano, Luigi eTrojano, Katja eAmoriello, Michela eMigliozzi, Francesca eD'Olimpio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Anxiety
spatial attention
threat
attentional bias
avoidance
Disengagement
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00685/full

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