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- Title
Threat-related attentional bias in anxious and nonanxious individuals: a meta-analytic study.
- Authors
Bar-Haim, Yair; Lamy, Dominique; Pergamin, Lee; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H
- Abstract
This meta-analysis of 172 studies (N = 2,263 anxious,N = 1,768 nonanxious) examined the boundary conditions of threat-related attentional biases in anxiety. Overall, the results show that the bias is reliably demonstrated with different experimental paradigms and under a variety of experimental conditions, but that it is only an effect size of d = 0.45. Although processes requiring conscious perception of threat contribute to the bias, a significant bias is also observed with stimuli outside awareness. The bias is of comparable magnitude across different types of anxious populations (individuals with different clinical disorders, high-anxious nonclinical individuals, anxious children and adults) and is not observed in nonanxious individuals. Empirical and clinical implications as well as future directions for research are discussed.
- Publication
Psychological bulletin, 2007, Vol 133, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0033-2909
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/0033-2909.133.1.1