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

@article{citeulike:1683858, abstract = {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.}, address = {Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.}, author = {Li, X. and Wang, M. and Poliakoff, E. and Luo, Y. J. }, citeulike-article-id = {1683858}, issn = {0031-5125}, journal = {Percept Mot Skills}, keywords = {anxiety, attentional-bias, picture, trait-anxiety}, month = {June}, number = {3 Pt 2}, pages = {1097--1106}, posted-at = {2007-09-22 02:39:29}, priority = {4}, title = {Attention to threat in high and low trait-anxious individuals: a study using extremely threatening pictorial cues.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17879643}, volume = {104}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1683858 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1683858 TI - Attention to threat in high and low trait-anxious individuals: a study using extremely threatening pictorial cues. JF - Percept Mot Skills VL - 104 IS - 3 Pt 2 SP - 1097 EP - 1106 AD - Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. SN - 0031-5125 N2 - 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. KW - anxiety KW - attentional-bias KW - picture KW - trait-anxiety AU - Li, X AU - Wang, M AU - Poliakoff, E AU - Luo, YJ PY - 2007/06// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17879643 ER -