Research papersSelective attention toward physical threat in patients with panic disorder
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Associations between emotional symptoms and self-reported aberrant driving behaviors in older adults
2019, Accident Analysis and PreventionCitation Excerpt :The panic subscale was also related to worse self-reported overall driving. Individuals with anxiety disorders such as panic disorder have been found to make more driving errors compae panic disorder demonstrate increased attention bias towards physical threat cues (e.g., potential for motor vehicle crashes) (Asmundson et al., 1992) as well as towards internal physical sensations (e.g., heart palpitations, sweating) (Schmidt et al., 1997). Thus, individuals who experience panic or are diagnosed with panic disorder may be more likely to exhibit poorer overall driving performance because of distracted driving due to these attention biases.
Attentional bias for threat: Crisis or opportunity?
2019, Clinical Psychology ReviewCitation Excerpt :In summary, an ABT is inferred from the speeding of a motor response (button or key press) to an emotionally neutral probe that appears in the location vacated by a threat stimulus (facial expression or word) relative to RTs to a neutral probe that appears in the location vacated by an emotionally neutral or positive stimulus. Variants of the dot probe paradigm have provided evidence for ABT in social anxiety disorder (e.g., Mogg, Philippot, & Bradley, 2004), panic disorder (e.g., Asmundson, Sandler, Wilson, & Walker, 1992), spider fear (e.g., Mogg & Bradley, 2006), and GAD (e.g., MacLeod et al., 1986). Most studies on ABT have involved inference from RTs to probes replacing threat cues.
Mobile attachment: Separation from the mobile phone induces physiological and behavioural stress and attentional bias to separation-related stimuli
2017, Computers in Human BehaviorCitation Excerpt :The neutral and the general negative words were selected from a 480-word pool used by Simor, Pajkossy, Horváth, and Bódizs (2012). Separation-related and physical threat words were collected from the literature (e.g. Asmundson, Sandler, Wilson, & Walker, 1992; Lundh & Czyzykow-Czarnocka, 2001). The collected words (N = 115; 20 separation-related, 22 physical threat, 25 general negative, and 48 neutral words) were rated for valence by laypersons not involved in the tests (N = 154, each was randomly assigned approximately 45 words from the 115 to rate; resulting in approximately 50 ratings per word).
Content specificity of attention bias to threat in anxiety disorders: A meta-analysis
2015, Clinical Psychology ReviewAttentional bias in untreated panic disorder
2011, Psychiatry ResearchCitation Excerpt :Although patients with panic disorder (PD) show no deficits in general information processing (Kaplan et al., 2006) a large body of evidence suggests that they tend to selectively and automatically direct their attention towards threat stimuli, and that they tend to preferentially interpret ambiguous stimuli in a negative way (Ehlers et al., 1988; Clark et al., 1997; Lundh et al., 1999; Lim and Kim, 2005; Teachman et al., 2007). However, while a number of studies on PD, for instance, report vigilance for panic-related words in a verbal dot-probe task (Asmundson et al., 1992) or biased processing of facial expressions (Lundh et al., 1998), other studies using identical or similar paradigms have not been able to find panic-specific processing (Asmundson and Stein, 1994; Kessler et al., 2007). One reason for these inconsistencies in results might be that the effects of medication or psychotherapy have been widely neglected in cognitive bias research in PD so far.
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The authors would like to thank Dr. Colin Ross for providing access to his patients, and Dr. Ron Norton for his helpful comments.