Selective attention and emotional vulnerability: Assessing the causal basis of their association through the experimental manipulation of attentional bias
Selective attention and emotional vulnerability: Assessing the causal basis of their association through the experimental manipulation of attentional bias
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DOI：
10.1037//0021-843x.111.1.107
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发表时间：
2002-02-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Holker, L
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作者：
MacLeod, C;Rutherford, E;Holker, L
虽然众所周知，对负面情绪的易感性与对厌恶信息的注意偏差有关，但这种联系的因果基础仍然不确定。两项研究解决了这一问题，通过实验使用改进的点探测任务诱导对情绪刺激的不同注意反应，然后考察这种注意操作对随后情绪易损性的影响。结果支持这一假设，即注意偏差的诱导应该有助于改变情绪脆弱性，正如参与者对最终标准化压力任务的情绪反应所揭示的那样。这些发现为之前的推测提供了可靠的经验基础，即注意偏差可以因果地调节情绪易损性，并表明旨在修改选择性信息处理的认知实验程序可能具有潜在的治疗价值。
Although it is well-established that vulnerability to negative emotion is associated with attentional bias toward aversive information, the causal basis of this association remains undetermined. Two studies addressed this issue by experimentally inducing differential attentional responses to emotional stimuli using a modified dot probe task, and then examining the impact of such attentional manipulation on subsequent emotional vulnerability. The results supported the hypothesis that the induction of attentional bias should serve to modify emotional vulnerability, as revealed by participants' emotional reactions to a final standardized stress task. These findings provide a sound empirical basis for the previously speculative proposal that attentional bias can causally mediate emotional vulnerability, and they suggest the possibility that cognitive-experimental procedures designed to modify selective information processing may have potential therapeutic value.