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dc.contributor.authorClarke, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorHart, S.
dc.contributor.authorMacLeod, C.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:20:22Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:20:22Z
dc.date.created2016-04-27T19:30:17Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationClarke, P. and Hart, S. and MacLeod, C. 2014. Is selective attention in anxiety characterised by biased attentional engagement with or disengagement from threat: Evidence from a colour naming paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. 5 (1): pp. 38-51.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30567
dc.identifier.doi10.5127/jep.032912
dc.description.abstract

There has been considerable recent interest in identifying which specific processes characterize the widely observed anxiety-linked attentional preference for negative information. Two tasks, the emotional Stroop and the attentional probe, have been consistently employed to assess selective attention. However, until now, research designed to distinguished biased attentional engagement with, and disengagement from negative information has almost exclusively employed attentional probe task variants. To identify which of these attentional processes underpin the traditional emotional Stroop effect we developed a variant of the emotional Stroop capable of differentiating these two aspects of attentional selectivity. To assess biased attentional engagement with emotional word meanings, trials required participants to process the colour of a letter string before then measuring their speed to switch attention to its semantic content. To assess biased attentional disengagement from emotional word meanings, trials required participants to process the semantic content of a letter string before then measuring their speed to switch attention to process its colour. Our results indicate that the pattern of effects observed on the traditional emotional Stroop task are likely due to enhanced attentional engagement with the semantic content of negative stimuli, but not by impaired attentional disengagement from such negative semantic content.

dc.publisherTextrum Ltd
dc.titleIs selective attention in anxiety characterised by biased attentional engagement with or disengagement from threat: Evidence from a colour naming paradigm
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume5
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage38
dcterms.source.endPage51
dcterms.source.issn2043-8087
dcterms.source.titleJournal of Experimental Psychopathology
curtin.departmentSchool of Psychology and Speech Pathology
curtin.accessStatusOpen access via publisher


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