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Cognit Ther Res. 2017;41(3):479-488. doi: 10.1007/s10608-016-9818-5. Epub 2016 Nov 19.

Automaticity of Attentional Bias to Threat in High and Low Worriers.

Cognitive therapy and research

Huw Goodwin, Claire Eagleson, Andrew Mathews, Jenny Yiend, Colette Hirsch

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
  2. University of California, Davis, Davis, CA USA.

PMID: 28515541 PMCID: PMC5410212 DOI: 10.1007/s10608-016-9818-5

Abstract

Individuals with high levels of worry are more likely than others to attend to possible threats, although the extent of top-down attentional control processes on this bias is unknown. We compared the performance of high (

Keywords: Anxiety; Attention; Cognitive bias; Cognitive load; Generalised anxiety disorder; Worry

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