Attentional and interpretive bias in anxiety: Concurrent expressions of a common selective mechanism, or independent mediators of anxiety vulnerability?

这项拟议的研究旨在确定最近发现的影响焦虑易感性的两种关键认知偏差，一种涉及对威胁的选择性注意，另一种涉及对歧义的选择性威胁解释，它们是作为共同的潜在因果机制的共同表现出现的，还是代表了调节这种情绪倾向的另一种因果路径。这个问题的解决将极大地促进我们对管理焦虑脆弱性的机制的理论理解，同时也直接有助于开发新的认知技术，旨在从治疗上改变这种脆弱性。

The proposed research aims to determine whether two key cognitive biases recently shown to causally influence anxiety vulnerability, one involving selective attention to threat and the other involving the selective imposition of threatening interpretations on ambiguity, arise as concurrent manifestations of a common underlying causal mechanism, or instead represent alternative causal pathways in the mediation of this emotional disposition. Resolution of this issue will significantly advance our theoretical understanding of the mechanisms that govern anxiety vulnerability, while also contributing directly to the development of new cognitive technologies designed to therapeutically modify such vulnerability.