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    When a Bad Bias Can Be Good: Anxiety-Linked Attentional Bias to Threat in Contexts Where Dangers Can Be Avoided

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    Notebaert, L.
    Tilbrook, M.
    Clarke, Patrick
    MacLeod, C.
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Notebaert, L. and Tilbrook, M. and Clarke, P. and MacLeod, C. 2017. When a Bad Bias Can Be Good: Anxiety-Linked Attentional Bias to Threat in Contexts Where Dangers Can Be Avoided. Clinical Psychological Science. 5 (3): pp. 485-496.
    Source Title
    Clinical Psychological Science
    DOI
    10.1177/2167702616681295
    ISSN
    2167-7026
    School
    School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54717
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017.Anxiety vulnerability is associated with an attentional bias to threat. When threat cues signal dangers that can be mitigated through behavioural action, vigilance for these threat cues can have an adaptive function. It is unknown, however, whether the anxiety-linked attentional bias is maintained or eliminated in contexts where threat cues signal dangers that can be mitigated. The current study used a probe task to assess anxiety-linked attentional bias to threat cues signalling a danger (noise burst) that in one condition could and in another condition could not be mitigated. Results showed that high trait anxious participants exhibited a larger attentional bias to threat than low trait anxious participants, and importantly, this anxiety-linked attentional bias did not differ as a function of danger mitigability. These findings suggest that anxiety-linked attentional bias is a rather pervasive processing style that may be insensitive to contextual variation in the adaptiveness of attending to threat.

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