Cutting stress off at the pass: reducing vigilance and responsiveness to social threat by manipulating attention
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Personality processes relating to social perception have been shown to play a significant role in the experience of stress. In 5 studies, the authors demonstrate that early stage attentional processes influence the perception of social threat and modify the human stress response. The authors first show that cortisol release in response to a stressful situation correlates with selective attention toward social threat. Second, the authors show in 2 laboratory studies that this attentional pattern, most evident among individuals with low self-esteem, can be modified with a repetitive training task. Next, in a field study, students trained to modify their attentional pattern to reduce vigilance for social threat showed lower self-reported stress related to their final exam. In a final field study with telemarketers, the attentional training task led to increased self-esteem, decreased cortisol and perceived stress responses, higher confidence, and greater work performance. Taken together, these results demonstrate the impact of antecedent-focused strategies on the late-stage consequences of social stress.
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Training individuals to withdraw their attention from stress-triggering social cues and to orient it toward emotionally comforting social cues was found to scale down physiological and self-reported stress levels.
“For example, training individuals to withdraw their attention from stress-triggering social cues (e.g., pictures of frowning faces) and to orient it toward emotionally comforting social cues (e.g., pictures of smiling faces) was found to scale down physiological and self-reported stress levels (Dandeneau, Baldwin, Baccus, Sakellaropoulo, & Pruessner, 2007).”
From The "Why" and "How" of Narcissism: A Process Model of Narcissistic Status Pursuit (2020) · cites this paper as Dandeneau, Baldwin, Baccus, Sakellaropoulo, & Pruessner, 2007
Withdrawing one's attention from cues that elicit specific responses can scale down those responses.
“Interventions on vigilance rely on the principle that withdrawing one’s attention from cues that elicit specific responses can scale down those responses.”
From The "Why" and "How" of Narcissism: A Process Model of Narcissistic Status Pursuit (2020) · cites this paper as Dandeneau, Baldwin, Baccus, Sakellaropoulo, & Pruessner, 2007
Lack of consensus about why conventional ABM has inconsistent effects has encouraged development of alternative methods with preliminary efficacy data.
“Lack of consensus regarding why conventional ABM threat-avoidance training has inconsistent effects (discussed earlier) has encouraged the development of various alternative methods which have preliminary data suggesting efficacy”
From Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention: Cognitive-Motivational Framework and Treatment (2018) · cites this paper as [70]
Preliminary nonclinical studies report short-term positive effects with several ABM methods.
“Preliminary nonclinical studies report short-term positive effects (e.g., reduced stress reactivity after singlesession training) with several methods (A-FACT, gamified ABM, person-identity matching, emotional face visual search training) [18,20,68,70].”
From Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention: Cognitive-Motivational Framework and Treatment (2018) · cites this paper as [70]
Evidence for therapeutic efficacy of alternative ABM training methods is limited.
“Evidence for the therapeutic efficacy of alternative ABM training methods is limited.”
From Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention: Cognitive-Motivational Framework and Treatment (2018) · cites this paper as [70]
In most ABM training methods, nonthreat targets are more likely to appear in different locations from threat cues, encouraging attention-orienting away from threat.
“In most ABM training methods, nonthreat targets are more likely to appear in different locations [ 5 0 8 _ T D $ D I F F ] from threat cues, which encourages attention-orienting away from threat.”
From Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention: Cognitive-Motivational Framework and Treatment (2018) · cites this paper as [70]
A previous study comparing VS and VS placebo training to an exposure-control condition showed that training effects could not be attributed to mere exposure.
“However, a previous study comparing the VS and VS placebo training to an exposure-control condition showed that training effects could not be attributed to mere exposure (Dandeneau et al., 2007).”
From Online attentional bias modification training targeting anxiety and depression in unselected adolescents: short- and long-term effects of a randomized controlled trial (2016) · cites this paper as Dandeneau et al., 2007
In the Mogoas et al. (2014) meta-analysis, symptom-improvement effect sizes of several comparisons using ABM-positive-search training were larger than the average effect size of the whole dataset.
“This meta-analysis indicated that symptom-improvement effect sizes of several comparisons which used ABM-positive-search training were larger than the average effect size of the whole dataset (Dandeneau et al., 2007; Study 3a and 3b; Waters et al., 2013).”
From Anxiety and attention to threat: cognitive mechanisms and treatment with attention bias modification (2016) · cites this paper as Dandeneau et al., 2007
Most studies of ABM-positive-search training found changes in AB measures for threat and positive stimuli, although these changes varied across studies.
“Regarding effects of ABM-positive-search training on AB, most studies found changes in AB measures for threat and positive stimuli, although these changes varied across studies.”
From Anxiety and attention to threat: cognitive mechanisms and treatment with attention bias modification (2016) · cites this paper as Dandeneau et al., 2007
ABM-positive-search training reduced ABs to threat on modified Stroop and visual-probe tasks in individuals with low self-esteem.
“ABMpositive-search training reduced ABs to threat on modified Stroop and visual-probe tasks in individuals with low self-esteem (Dandeneau et al., 2007)”
From Anxiety and attention to threat: cognitive mechanisms and treatment with attention bias modification (2016) · cites this paper as Dandeneau et al., 2007
Findings from these studies indicate that ABM-positive-search training reduces self-reported stress and cortisol measures of stress reactivity in adults, social anxiety symptoms in youth and clinician-rated symptom severity of anxiety disorders in children.
“Findings from these studies indicate that ABM-positive-search training reduces self-reported stress and cortisol measures of stress reactivity in adults (Dandeneau et al., 2007), social anxiety symptoms in youth (De Voogd et al., 2014) and clinician-rated symptom severity of anxiety disorders in children (Waters et al., 2013(Waters et al., , 2015(Waters et al., , 2016)).”
From Anxiety and attention to threat: cognitive mechanisms and treatment with attention bias modification (2016) · cites this paper as Dandeneau et al., 2007
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- Authors
- Dandeneau, S. D., Baldwin, M. W., Baccus, J. R., Sakellaropoulo, M., & Pruessner, J. C.
- Affiliations
- McGill University (CA)
- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (CA)
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 2007
- Volume
- 93
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 651-666
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- OpenAlex
- W2117995875
- Cited by
- 341
- References
- 77
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 33 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 29 · 2012: 30
- FWCI
- 21.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- La Fondation Baxter et Alma Ricard
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (67071)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
- Keywords
- social danger, attentional bias, stress response, cortisol, self-esteem, attention training, sustained attention, perceived stress, exam stress, telemarketers, employee performance, confidence, social perception
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Arousal, Attention, Brain, Facial Expression, Female, Habituation, Psychophysiologic, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Internal-External Control, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Rejection, Psychology, Self Concept, Set, Psychology, Social Perception, Stress, Psychological
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