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Attentional bias in anxiety and depression: The role of awareness

Mogg, Karin, Bradley, Brendan P., Williams, Rachel·1995·British Journal of Clinical Psychology

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Attentional biases were assessed with a probe detection task in anxious (N = 17), depressed (N = 17) and normal control (N = 15) subjects. Word pairs were presented visually, with a dot probe following one word of each pair. Allocation of attention to the spatial position of the words was determined from response latencies to the probes. Half the word pairs were presented supraliminally, half subliminally. The anxious and depressed groups showed an attentional bias towards supraliminal negative words, in comparison with normal controls. The depressed group unexpectedly showed greater vigilance for supraliminal anxiety‐relevant words than the anxious group. The anxious group shifted their attention towards the spatial location of negative words presented subliminally. The results support the hypothesis of an anxiety‐related bias in preconscious processes.

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  • In an attentional probe paradigm, anxious individuals orient to the position of previously presented threat-related stimuli even when they are backwardly masked and presented below the level of conscious awareness.

    “For example, in an attentional probe paradigm anxious individuals have been shown to orient to the position of previously presented threat-related stimuli, even when they were backwardly masked and therefore presented below the level of conscious awareness (Mogg et al., 1995b).”
  • Preconscious attentional biases to threat are reduced following cognitive behavioural therapy.

    “Such preconscious attentional biases to threat have been shown to be reduced following cognitive behavioural therapy (e.g.Mogg et al., 1995a).”
  • Depression is associated with a pattern of cognition biased towards negative information, with depressed individuals tending to remember negative items and rate experiences or stimuli as more negative than controls.

    “Depression has long been associated with a pattern of cognition biased towards negative information, with depressed individuals showing a tendency to remember negative items and to rate experiences or stimuli as more negative than do controls (e.g.Gur et al., 1992;Mogg et al., 1995).”

    From Affective Cognition and its Disruption in Mood Disorders (2011) · cites this paper as Mogg et al., 1995

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Authors
Mogg, K., Bradley, B. P., & Williams, R.
Affiliations
University of Cambridge (GB)
Corresponding author
Mogg, Karin
Venue
British Journal of Clinical Psychology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1995-02
Volume
34
Issue
1
Pages
17-36
ISSN
  • 0144-6657 (ISSN-L)
  • 2044-8260
OpenAlex
W2042402348
Cited by
559
References
0
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FWCI
10.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • British Journal of Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Wellcome Trust
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Keywords
attentional bias, anxiety, depression, awareness, subliminal presentation, dot-probe task, sustained attention, negative words, attentional shift
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Anxiety, Attention, Awareness, Depression, Discrimination Learning, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Orientation, Paired-Associate Learning, Personality Inventory, Semantics, Subliminal Stimulation

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