Child Development Laboratory, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
Behav Res Ther. 2011 Apr;49(4):244-51. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2011.01.004. Epub 2011 Jan 27.
Both attention bias to threat and negative interpretive bias have been implicated in the emergence and maintenance of anxiety disorders. However, relations between attention and interpretive biases remain poorly understood. The current study experimentally manipulated attention bias to threat and examined the effects of attention training on the way ambiguous information was interpreted. Results suggest that the preferential allocation of attention towards threat affects the manner in which ambiguous information is interpreted. Individuals trained to attend to threat were more likely than individuals in a placebo training group to interpret ambiguous information in a threat-related manner. These data suggest that perturbations in the initial stages of information processing associated with anxiety may lead to a cascade of subsequent processing biases.
注意偏向和负性解释偏向都与焦虑障碍的出现和维持有关。然而，注意和解释偏向之间的关系还知之甚少。本研究通过实验操纵注意偏向，考察了注意训练对模糊信息解释方式的影响。结果表明，对威胁的注意力偏向会影响模糊信息的解释方式。与安慰剂训练组相比，接受威胁注意训练的个体更有可能以威胁相关的方式来解释模糊信息。这些数据表明，与焦虑相关的信息处理初始阶段的干扰可能导致随后的一系列处理偏差。
