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Anxiety, Depression, and the Emotional Stroop Task

Anxiety, Depression, and the Emotional Stroop Task. The study by Mogg et al. (1993):. Studies have found evidence that anxious participants selectively attend to threatening information (Mathews & MacLeod, 1986; MacLeod et al., 1986) and remember it better ( Mathews et al., 1989 ) .

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Anxiety, Depression, and the Emotional Stroop Task

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  1. Anxiety, Depression, and the Emotional Stroop Task The study by Mogg et al. (1993): Studies have found evidence that anxious participants selectively attend to threatening information (Mathews & MacLeod, 1986; MacLeod et al., 1986) and remember it better (Mathews et al., 1989). This study examined whether people diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder or depression scored showed higher interference in an Emotional Stroop Task. Contributor © POSbase 2005

  2. Anxiety, Depression, and the Emotional Stroop Task Participants were presented with emotional and neutral words, one by one, on a colored background. Participants had to name the underlying color as fast as possible. Participants gotboth masked and unmasked words. The authors were interested whether negative words interfered with the color naming task. © POSbase 2005

  3. Anxiety, Depression, and the Emotional Stroop Task Interference (milliseconds) to categorized neutral word: © POSbase 2005

  4. Anxiety, Depression, and the Emotional Stroop Task Across both the subliminal and supraliminal exposure conditions, patients suffering from anxiety showed more interference from emotional content than depressed patients or healthy control participants. This study is in line with former research that showed attentional biases (Mathews & MacLeod, 1986; MacLeod et al., 1986) and memory biases (Mathews et al., 1989) in anxiety, but not in depression. © POSbase 2005

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