Selective attention and emotional vulnerability: Assessing the causal basis of their association through the experimental manipulation of attentional bias. MacLeod, C., Rutherford, E., Campbell, L., Ebsworthy, G., & Holker, L. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111(1):107--123, 2002. doi abstract bibtex Although it is well-established that vulnerability to negative emotion is associated with attentional bias toward aversive information, the causal basis of this association remains undetermined. Two studies addressed this issue by experimentally inducing differential attentional responses to emotional stimuli using a modified dot probe task, and then examining the impact of such attentional manipulation on subsequent emotional vulnerability. The results supported the hypothesis that the induction of attentional bias should serve to modify emotional vulnerability, as revealed by participants' emotional reactions to a final standardized stress task. These findings provide a sound empirical basis for the previously speculative proposal that attentional bias can causally mediate emotional vulnerability, and they suggest the possibility that cognitive-experimental procedures designed to modify selective information processing may have potential therapeutic value.
@article{macleod_selective_2002,
title = {Selective attention and emotional vulnerability: {Assessing} the causal basis of their association through the experimental manipulation of attentional bias},
volume = {111},
copyright = {(c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved},
issn = {1939-1846(Electronic);0021-843X(Print)},
shorttitle = {Selective attention and emotional vulnerability},
doi = {10.1037/0021-843X.111.1.107},
abstract = {Although it is well-established that vulnerability to negative emotion is associated with attentional bias toward aversive information, the causal basis of this association remains undetermined. Two studies addressed this issue by experimentally inducing differential attentional responses to emotional stimuli using a modified dot probe task, and then examining the impact of such attentional manipulation on subsequent emotional vulnerability. The results supported the hypothesis that the induction of attentional bias should serve to modify emotional vulnerability, as revealed by participants' emotional reactions to a final standardized stress task. These findings provide a sound empirical basis for the previously speculative proposal that attentional bias can causally mediate emotional vulnerability, and they suggest the possibility that cognitive-experimental procedures designed to modify selective information processing may have potential therapeutic value.},
number = {1},
journal = {Journal of Abnormal Psychology},
author = {MacLeod, Colin and Rutherford, Elizabeth and Campbell, Lyn and Ebsworthy, Greg and Holker, Lin},
year = {2002},
keywords = {*Causal Analysis, *Emotional Adjustment, *Emotions, *Selective Attention, Susceptibility (Disorders)},
pages = {107--123}
}
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