Attentional bias in anxiety: Selective search or defective filtering?

· 1990 · APA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-843x.99.2.166

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Abstract

Examines whether attentional bias in anxious people reflects more efficient threat detection or impaired filtering of irrelevant stimuli. Evidence supports the impaired filtering account, consistent with later Attentional Control Theory.

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Publisher: American Psychological Association