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Spider fearful individuals attend to threat, then quickly avoid it: Evidence from eye movements.

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Rinck, Mike, Becker, Eni S.·2006·Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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According to cognitive models of anxiety, anxiety patients exhibit an early reflexive attentional bias toward threat stimuli, which may be followed by intentional avoidance of these stimuli. To determine the time course of attentional vigilance and avoidance, the authors conducted an eye-tracking study in which 22 highly spider fearful participants (SFs) and 23 nonanxious control participants (NACs) studied groups of 4 pictures (spider, butterfly, dog, and cat). The authors found that the very first fixation was on a spider picture more often in SFs than in NACs. However, SFs quickly moved their eyes away from the spider they had fixated first, yielding shorter gaze durations than NACs. Afterward, SFs exhibited shorter gaze durations on spiders than NACs for the rest of the 1-min presentation time. This early reflexive attentional bias toward threat followed by avoidance of threat may explain earlier failures to find attentional biases in anxiety.

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Authors
Rinck, M., & Becker, E. S.
Affiliations
Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
Venue
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Published
2006-05
Volume
115
Issue
2
Pages
231-238
ISSN
  • 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1846
OpenAlex
W2075410555
Cited by
231
References
31
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FWCI
17.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Ri 600/6-1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
spider phobia, anxiety, threat avoidance, gaze duration, eye movements, fixation patterns, cognitive models of anxiety, time course of attention
MeSH terms
Animals, Attention, Escape Reaction, Eye Movements, Fear, Humans, Phobic Disorders, Surveys and Questionnaires, Spiders

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