ERIC Number: EJ751129
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Publication Date: 2007-Jan
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Threat-Related Attentional Bias in Anxious and Nonanxious Individuals: A Meta-Analytic Study
Bar-Haim, Yair; Lamy, Dominique; Pergamin, Lee; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.
Psychological Bulletin, v133 n1 p1-24 Jan 2007
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.
Descriptors: Effect Size, Meta Analysis, Anxiety, Bias, Experiments, Research Methodology, Stimuli, Psychological Patterns, Adults, Children, Age Differences
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Language: English
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