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Anxiety and orienting of gaze to angry and fearful faces
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Neuroscience research indicates that individual differences in anxiety may be attributable to a neural system for threat-processing, involving the amygdala, which modulates attentional vigilance, and which is more sensitive to fearful than angry faces. Complementary cognitive studies indicate that high-anxious individuals show enhanced visuospatial orienting towards angry faces, but it is unclear whether fearful faces elicit a similar attentional bias. This study compared biases in initial orienting of gaze to fearful and angry faces, which varied in emotional intensity, in high- and low-anxious individuals. Gaze was monitored whilst participants viewed a series of face-pairs. Results showed that fearful and angry faces elicited similar attentional biases. High-anxious individuals were more likely to direct gaze at intense negative facial expressions, than low-anxious individuals, whereas the groups did not differ in orienting to mild negative expressions. Implications of the findings for research into the neural and cognitive bases of emotion processing are discussed.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mogg, K., Garner, M., & Bradley, B. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Southampton (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Mogg, Karin
- Venue
- Biological Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-10
- Volume
- 76
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 163-169
- ISSN
- 0301-0511 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2075532
- OpenAlex
- W2040924069
- Cited by
- 192
- References
- 41
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- FWCI
- 5.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Biological Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (51076)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- anxiety, threat processing, amygdala, attentional bias, fearful faces, angry faces, facial expressions, emotional intensity, individual differences, attentional vigilance
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Anger, Anxiety, Attention, Facial Expression, Fear, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Reaction Time
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