Sökning: "attentional bias"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden attentional bias.
1. In search of the missing bias : Virtual reality based attentional bias modification for social anxiety
Sammanfattning : Attentional bias modification (ABM) aims to attenuate social anxiety by directly modifying the underlying bias that generates and maintains problematic anxiety. Mixed results from previous ABM studies have spurred efforts to boost its effectiveness by introducing more robust bias modification protocols and new technologies. LÄS MER
2. Anxiety and attentional bias : studies with the emotional stroop task
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3. Cognitive-behavioral treatment and theory in posttraumatic stress disorder
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation contains four empirical studies. The first two investigated the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral (CBT) treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by randomizing patients to two different groups. The last two are experimental studies that tested parts of the cognitive theory of PTSD. LÄS MER
4. Biological Aspects of Peripartum Depression
Sammanfattning : Peripartum depression affects around 12% of women in pregnancy and postpartum, and about 2–3% of European pregnant women use antidepressants, mostly selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). An increased risk of poor pregnancy outcomes has been described in women with antenatal depression and SSRI treatment during pregnancy. LÄS MER
5. Finding an emotional face in a crowd and the role of threat-biased attention in social anxiety
Sammanfattning : The evolutionary perspective on the functionality of prioritizing efficient threat detection (Öhman, 1986, 1993) provided the foundation for a hypothesis of an attentional bias for preferential detection of angry faces in a group of faces. Furthermore, an evolutionary analysis implied that such a threat bias would be enhanced in socially anxious individuals, whose bias for detecting threat in faces would be potentiated by their increased sensitivity for facial signals of social dominance. LÄS MER