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A Cognitive Model of Selective Processing in Anxiety
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“Several models suggest that anxiety biases attention towards threat-related stimuli by increasing the output from an amygdala-centred threat evaluation system”
From Short-term serotonergic but not noradrenergic antidepressant administration reduces attentional vigilance to threat in healthy volunteers (2009) · cites this paper as Mathews and Mackintosh, 1998
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“In short, there is strong evidence for what has been proposed by major theories on emotion processing (Mathews & Mackintosh, 1998; Öhman & Mineka, 2001): stimuli associated with negative valence have a mandatory and involuntary effect on the allocation of covert and overt attention, which cannot be fully controlled in a top-down effortful fashion.”
From Selection history: How reward modulates selectivity of visual attention. (2018) · cites this paper as Mathews & Mackintosh, 1998
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“An automatic threat evaluation system (TES) makes people vigilant to potentially threatening information (50).”
From Negative interpretation of ambiguous bodily symptoms among illness-anxious individuals: Exploring the role of developmental and maintenance constructs (2023) · cites this paper as [50]
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“AB in threat-distractor interference (e.g., [ 5 0 2 _ T D $ D I F F ] on the emotional Stroop task) reflects conflict between threat salience-driven and goal-directed processes [26,30,31,55,59].”
From Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention: Cognitive-Motivational Framework and Treatment (2018) · cites this paper as [30]
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“Threat hypersensitivity of automatic salience evaluation and switching in anxiety may trigger inhibition/interruption of task-related activity, as well as switching of attention priorities from goal-directed processing to threat salience-driven processing (Figure 2), which impairs task performance”
From Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention: Cognitive-Motivational Framework and Treatment (2018) · cites this paper as [30]
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The psychology of fear and stress
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Attentional bias in emotional disorders.
MacLeod, C., Mathews, A., & Tata, P. R. (1986) · Journal of Abnormal Psychology · doi:10.1037//0021-843x.95.1.15 · Cited by 2,553
Self-citationThe emotional Stroop task and psychopathology
Williams, J. M. G., Mathews, A., & MacLeod, C. (1996) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.120.1.3 · Cited by 2,420
Self-citationInhibitory Processes in Attention, Memory and Language
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The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
Gray, J. A., & McNaughton, N. (2003) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198522713.001.0001 · Cited by 1,953
Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders
Williams, J. M. G. (1988) · UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) · Cited by 1,871
LeDoux, J. E. (1995) · Annual Review of Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev.ps.46.020195.001233 · Cited by 1,646
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- Hirsch, C., & Mathews, A. (1997). Interpretive inference s when reading about emotional events. Behavior Research and Therapy, 35, 1123–1132. · DOI
- Lang, P. J., Bradley, M., & Cuthbert, B. N. (1995). International Affective Picture System (IAPS). Gainesville: NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida.
- Öhman, A. (1993). Fear and anxiety as emotional phenomena. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland (Eds.), Handbook of emotions(pp. 511–536). New York: Guilford Press.
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Anxiety and cognitive performance: Attentional control theory
Eysenck, M. W., Derakshan, N., Santos, R., & Calvo, M. G. (2007) · Emotion · doi:10.1037/1528-3542.7.2.336 · Cited by 5,289
Threat-related attentional bias in anxious and nonanxious individuals: a meta-analytic study.
Bar-Haim, Y., Lamy, D., Pergamin, L., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2007) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.133.1.1 · Cited by 3,721
Cognitive vulnerability to emotional disorders
Mathews, A., & MacLeod, C. (2005) · Annual Review of Clinical Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.1.102803.143916 · Cited by 2,100
Self-citationMechanisms of attentional biases towards threat in anxiety disorders: An integrative review
Cisler, J. M., & Koster, E. H. W. (2010) · Clinical Psychology Review · doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2009.11.003 · Cited by 1,753
Vago, D. R., & Silbersweig, D. A. (2012) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00296 · Cited by 1,310
Metadata
- Authors
- Mathews, A., & Mackintosh, B.
- Affiliations
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (GB)
- ORCID
- Mackintosh, Bundy
- Venue
- Cognitive Therapy and Research
- Published
- 1998-12
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 539-560
- ISSN
- 0147-5916 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2819
- OpenAlex
- W2170408452
- Cited by
- 756
- References
- 77
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 56 · 2019: 31 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 40 · 2015: 32 · 2014: 48 · 2013: 40 · 2012: 54
- FWCI
- 8.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Cognitive Therapy and Research (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- anxiety, selective attention, threat processing, attentional bias, interpretation bias, attentional competition, voluntary effort, evolutionary perspective, aversive conditioning, extinction
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