Watch out for the beast: Fear information and attentional bias in children
Watch out for the beast: Fear information and attentional bias in children
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DOI：
10.1207/s15374424jccp3503_8
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发表时间：
2006-09-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Field, Andy P.
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作者：
Field, Andy P.
虽然关于新奇动物的有价信息改变了儿童的内隐和外显恐惧信念（Field & Lawson，2003），但它如何导致焦虑尚不清楚。基于焦虑的认知模型，一种可能性是恐惧信息会产生与焦虑症相似的注意力偏差。7至9岁的儿童被告知关于第一种新动物的积极信息，关于另一种动物的消极信息，没有关于第三种动物的信息。一个图形点探测任务，立即或24小时的延迟，测试注意力的偏见，不同的动物。结果重复了恐惧信息改变儿童恐惧信念的发现。不管是否有延迟，儿童获得了注意力的偏见，在左视野对动物，他们持有负面的信念相比，控制动物。这些结果暗示了一种可能的方式，恐惧信息可能有助于获得恐惧。
Although valenced information about novel animals changes the implicit and explicit fear beliefs of children (Field & Lawson, 2003), how it might lead to anxiety is unknown. One possibility, based on cognitive models of anxiety, is that fear information creates attentional biases similar to those seen in anxiety disorders. Children between 7 and 9 years old were given positive information about I novel animal, negative information about another, and no information about the 3rd. A pictorial dot-probe task was used, immediately or with a 24-hr delay, to test for attentional biases to the different animals. The results replicated the finding that fear information changes children's fear beliefs. Regardless of whether there was a delay, children acquired an attentional bias in the left visual field toward the animal about which they held negative beliefs compared to the control animal. These results imply a possible way in which fear information might contribute to acquired fear.