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Processing of emotional information in anxious subjects
Author(s) -
Mogg Karin,
Marden Bernard
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1990.tb00874.x
Subject(s) - psychology , stroop effect , anxiety , information processing , task (project management) , attentional bias , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , cognition , psychiatry , management , economics
The study used a modified Stroop colour‐naming task to investigate whether nonclinical 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.