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Threat-related attentional bias in anxious and nonanxious individuals: A metaanalytic study (2007)
| Venue: | Psychological Bulletin |
| Citations: | 149 - 3 self |
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@ARTICLE{Bar-haim07threat-relatedattentional,
author = {Yair Bar-haim and Dominique Lamy and Lee Pergamin and Marian J. Bakermans-kranenburg and Marinus H. Van Ijzendoorn},
title = {Threat-related attentional bias in anxious and nonanxious individuals: A metaanalytic study},
journal = {Psychological Bulletin},
year = {2007},
pages = {1--24}
}
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Abstract
This meta-analysis of 172 studies (N � 2,263 anxious, N � 1,768 nonanxious) examined the boundary conditions of threat-related attentional biases in anxiety. Overall, the results show that the bias is reliably demonstrated with different experimental paradigms and under a variety of experimental conditions, but that it is only an effect size of d � 0.45. Although processes requiring conscious perception of threat contribute to the bias, a significant bias is also observed with stimuli outside awareness. The bias is of comparable magnitude across different types of anxious populations (individuals with different clinical disorders, high-anxious nonclinical individuals, anxious children and adults) and is not observed in nonanxious individuals. Empirical and clinical implications as well as future directions for research are discussed.
Keyphrases
threat-related attentional bias nonanxious individual metaanalytic study threat contribute anxious population future direction comparable magnitude conscious perception anxious child experimental condition different clinical disorder boundary condition high-anxious nonclinical individual different type stimulus outside awareness different experimental paradigm significant bias effect size clinical implication
