Processing of emotional information in anxious subjects.
The study used a modified Stroop colour-naming task to investigate whether non-clinical anxiety is associated with a processing bias favouring emotional stimuli, and whether similar biases operate for personally relevant information that is unrelated to threat. The results appeared to indicate only that anxious subjects selectively process emotional information in general, rather than threat stimuli in particular.
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Department of Psychology, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK.
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D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001143:Arousal; D001288:Attention; D003118:Color Perception; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012660:Semantics