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Attentional biases for negative interpersonal stimuli in clinical depression
Abstract
An information-processing paradigm was used to examine attentional biases in clinically depressed participants, participants with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and nonpsychiatric control participants for faces expressing sadness, anger, and happiness. Faces were presented for 1000 ms, at which point depressed participants had directed their attention selectively to depression-relevant (i.e., sad) faces. This attentional bias was specific to the emotion of sadness; the depressed participants did not exhibit attentional biases to the angry or happy faces. This bias was also specific to depression; at 1000 ms, participants with GAD were not attending selectively to sad, happy, or anxiety-relevant (i.e., angry) faces. Implications of these findings for both the cognitive and the interpersonal functioning of depressed individuals are discussed and directions for future research are advanced.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gotlib, I. H., Krasnoperova, E., Yue, D. N., & Joormann, J.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Published
- 2004-02
- Volume
- 113
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 127-135
- ISSN
- 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1846
- OpenAlex
- W2129600186
- Cited by
- 911
- References
- 60
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- FWCI
- 24.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH59259, R01MH059259)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- attentional bias, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, facial emotion recognition, sadness, anger, happiness
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Affect, Attention, Depressive Disorder, Major, Major Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Middle Aged, Random Allocation, Severity of Illness Index, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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