Phobia-related cognitive bias for pictorial and linguistic stimuli
Phobia-related cognitive bias for pictorial and linguistic stimuli
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DOI：
10.1037/0021-843x.106.4.644
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发表时间：
1997-11-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Brosschot, JF
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作者：
Kindt, M;Brosschot, JF
本研究的目的是探讨是否焦虑相关的认知偏见的威胁是更强的威胁图片比威胁的话。蜘蛛恐惧症的参与者（n = 31）和控制参与者（n = 33）进行了图片和语言蜘蛛Stroop任务。蜘蛛恐惧症的参与者对威胁表现出明显的偏见。然而，对于图片和文字，这种偏见是相似的，尽管蜘蛛恐惧症组认为图片更令人厌恶。结果表明，恐惧症患者对威胁性信息的自动加工是以开关方式触发的，与刺激的主观威胁无关。在自动处理弱和强的危险预测因素时缺乏区分，这可能是焦虑症非理性本质的根本。
The purpose of this study was to examine whether anxiety-related cognitive bias for threat is stronger for threatening pictures than for threatening words. Spider-phobic participants (n = 31) and control participants (n = 33) performed a pictorial and linguistic spider Stroop task. Spider-phobic participants showed a marked bias for threat. However, this bias was similar for pictures: and for words, although the spider-phobic group evaluated the pictures as being more aversive. The results suggest that automatic processing of threatening information in people with phobias is triggered in aa on-off fashion, independent of subjective threat of the stimuli. This lack of distinction in automatic processing of weak and strong predictors of danger may be fundamental to the irrational nature of anxiety disorders.