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Does Imminent Threat Capture and Hold Attention?

Koster, Ernst H. W., Crombez, Geert, Van Damme, Stefaan, Verschuere, Bruno, De Houwer, Jan·2004·Emotion

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According to models of attention and emotion, threat captures and holds attention. In behavioral tasks, robust evidence has been found for attentional holding but not for attentional capture by threat. An important explanation for the absence of attentional capture effects is that the visual stimuli used posed no genuine threat. The present study investigated whether visual cues that signal an aversive white noise can elicit attentional capture and holding effects. Cues presented in an attentional task were simultaneously provided with a threat value through an aversive conditioning procedure. Response latencies showed that threatening cues captured and held attention. These results support recent views on attention to threat, proposing that imminent threat captures attention in everyone.

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Authors: Koster, E. H. W., Crombez, G., Van Damme, S., Verschuere, B., & De Houwer, J.
Affiliations: Ghent University (BE)
ORCID: Koster, Ernst H. W.
Crombez, Geert
Van Damme, Stefaan
Venue: Emotion
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 2004
Volume: 4
Issue: 3
Pages: 312-317
ISSN: 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
1931-1516
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.4.3.312
OpenAlex: W2014431249
Cited by: 312
References: 29
Citations by year: 2026: 5 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 21
FWCI: 5.54
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Emotion (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
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
Keywords: attentional capture, threats, aversive conditioning, threat value, visual cues, white noise, response latency, emotion and attention
MeSH terms: Attention, Cues, Facial Expression, Humans, Reaction Time, Visual Perception

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