How biased engagement with, and biased disengagement from, emotional information contribute to alternative dimensions of anxiety vulnerability

焦虑问题每年花费澳大利亚超过10亿美元，影响了澳大利亚16%的人口。申请人和其他人之前的研究最近已经确定，选择性信息处理的某些模式因果地支撑了对焦虑的脆弱性。本计划将有助于区分功能的贡献，由两个特定类别的处理选择性的两个关键方面的焦虑脆弱性。它的目的是产生新的认知技术，不仅能够预测，而且还能够减弱对压力的焦虑反应，以及随着时间的推移焦虑的持续性。

Anxiety problems cost Australia over $1 billion per annum, and affect up to 16% of some Australian populations. Previous research by the applicants, and others, recently has established that certain patterns of selective information processing causally underpin elevated vulnerability to anxiety. The present program will serve to distinguish the functional contributions made by two specific classes of processing selectivity to two key dimensions of anxiety vulnerability. It is designed to produce novel cognitive technologies capable not only of predicting, but also of attenuating, both the tendency to experience anxiety reactions to stress, and the subsequent persistence of anxiety over time.