Attentional Bias for Threat: Evidence for Delayed Disengagement from Emotional Faces.

The present paper reports three new experiments suggesting that the valence of a face cue can influence attentional effects in a cueing paradigm. Moreover, heightened trait anxiety resulted in increased attentional dwell-time on emotional facial stimuli, relative to neutral faces. Experiment 1 prese...

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Main Authors: Fox, E, Russo, R, Dutton, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2002