When a Bad Bias Can Be Good: Anxiety-Linked Attentional Bias to Threat in Contexts Where Dangers Can Be Avoided

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When a Bad Bias Can Be Good: Anxiety-Linked Attentional Bias to Threat in Contexts Where Dangers Can Be Avoided

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017.Anxiety vulnerability is associated with an attentional bias to threat. When threat cues signal dangers that can be mitigated through behavioural action, vigilance for these threat cues can have an adaptive function. It is unknown, however, whether the anxiety-linked att...

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Main Authors:	Notebaert, L., Tilbrook, M., Clarke, Patrick, MacLeod, C.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Sage Publications 2017
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54717

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