Biases in Visual Selective Attention : Trait Anxious Individuals Avert Their Gaze From Unpleasant Stimuli
Popular Abstract in Swedish Enligt vissa teorier så har individer med ångest en benägenhet att rikta sin uppmärksamhet mot negativa emotionella stimuli i omgivningen, medan de inte uppmärksammar positiva stimuli. Detta kan ta sig i uttryck i att de tittar mer på eller blir mer distraherade av till exempel arga ansikten, otäcka bilder eller negativa ord. Det övergripande syftet med avhandlingen varCognitive models of anxiety postulate that anxious individuals are inclined to pay more attention to negative than to positive emotional visual stimuli. The main aim of the present dissertation was to test this prediction, employing a measure of the direction of gaze. In studies I, II and III the participants were shown pairs of angry and happy faces on a screen. In Study IV the stimuli were pleas
