title: Anxiety and attention: is there an attentional bias for positive emotional stimuli?
abstract: Empirical research has shown that anxiety is associated with a systematic bias in the cognitive system. Anxious individuals (clinically anxious patients and normal individuals with high-trait anxiety) are characterized by a pattern of selective processing that favors the encoding of threatening information. Is this attentional bias specific to threat-related information, or does it operate for positive emotional stimuli? The research directly connected with the existence of an attentional bias for threat in anxiety was examined.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicología de la Personalidad, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Caballero
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bermúdez
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D001288:Attention; D015982:Bias; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory