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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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“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
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“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
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“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]
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“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].”
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“Evidence for the therapeutic efficacy of alternative ABM training methods is limited.”
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“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]
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“ABMpositive-search training reduced ABs to threat on modified Stroop and visual-probe tasks in individuals with low self-esteem (Dandeneau et al., 2007)”
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“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)).”
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Metadata
- 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
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- 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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