Selective attention for masked and unmasked emotionally toned stimuli: Effects of trait anxiety, state anxiety, and test order

We investigated selective attention for masked and unmasked, threat, and positively valenced words, in high trait anxious (HTA) and low trait anxious (LTA) individuals using the emotional Stroop colour-naming task. State anxiety was varied within participants through the threat of electric shock. To...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Edwards, M., Burt, J., Lipp, Ottmar
Format: Journal Article
Published: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30853