Selective attention to angry faces in clinical social phobia
Selective attention to angry faces in clinical social phobia
This study investigated the time course of attentional responses to emotional facial expressions in a clinical sample with social phobia. With a visual probe task, photographs of angry, happy, and neutral faces were presented at 2 exposure durations: 500 and 1,250 ms. At 500 ms, the social phobia group showed enhanced vigilance for angry faces, relative to happy and neutral faces, in comparison with normal controls. In the 1,250-ms condition, there were no significant attentional biases in the social phobia group. Results are consistent with a bias in initial orienting to threat cues in social anxiety. Findings are discussed in relation to recent cognitive models of anxiety disorders.
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Mogg, Karin
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Philippot, Pierre
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Bradley, Brendan P.
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2004
Mogg, Karin
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Philippot, Pierre
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Bradley, Brendan P.
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Mogg, Karin, Philippot, Pierre and Bradley, Brendan P.
(2004)
Selective attention to angry faces in clinical social phobia.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113 (1), .
Abstract
This study investigated the time course of attentional responses to emotional facial expressions in a clinical sample with social phobia. With a visual probe task, photographs of angry, happy, and neutral faces were presented at 2 exposure durations: 500 and 1,250 ms. At 500 ms, the social phobia group showed enhanced vigilance for angry faces, relative to happy and neutral faces, in comparison with normal controls. In the 1,250-ms condition, there were no significant attentional biases in the social phobia group. Results are consistent with a bias in initial orienting to threat cues in social anxiety. Findings are discussed in relation to recent cognitive models of anxiety disorders.
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