Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, England.
J Abnorm Psychol. 2010 Feb;119(1):235-40. doi: 10.1037/a0018264.
The causal role of biased attention in worry was investigated in an experiment in which high worriers were assigned either to a condition requiring attention to nonthreatening words and text while ignoring worry-related material or to a mixed-attention control condition. The former procedure led to fewer negative thought intrusions in a worry test (as rated by both participants and an assessor) than did the control condition. These findings suggest that attentional bias plays a causal role in worry and that its modification can reduce excessive worry.
该实验旨在探究偏向性注意在担忧中的因果作用，实验中，高担忧者被分配到两种条件下：一种条件要求他们注意非威胁性的单词和文本，同时忽略与担忧相关的材料；另一种是混合注意控制条件。与控制条件相比，前者程序导致担忧测试中（无论是参与者还是评估者评定）负面思维侵入的次数更少。这些发现表明，注意力偏向在担忧中起着因果作用，并且可以通过改变这种偏向来减少过度担忧。
