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- Title
Anxiety and cognitive performance: attentional control theory.
- Authors
Eysenck, Michael W; Derakshan, Nazanin; Santos, Rita; Calvo, Manuel G
- Abstract
Attentional control theory is an approach to anxiety and cognition representing a major development of Eysenck and Calvo's (1992) processing efficiency theory. It is assumed that anxiety impairs efficient functioning of the goal-directed attentional system and increases the extent to which processing is influenced by the stimulus-driven attentional system. In addition to decreasing attentional control, anxiety increases attention to threat-related stimuli. Adverse effects of anxiety on processing efficiency depend on two central executive functions involving attentional control: inhibition and shifting. However, anxiety may not impair performance effectiveness (quality of performance) when it leads to the use of compensatory strategies (e.g., enhanced effort; increased use of processing resources). Directions for future research are discussed.
- Publication
Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 2007, Vol 7, Issue 2, p336
- ISSN
1528-3542
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/1528-3542.7.2.336