Mood-congruent attentional bias in dysphoria: maintained attention to and impaired disengagement from negative information. Export

@article{citeulike:455140, abstract = {Attentional bias to negative information has been proposed to be a cognitive vulnerability factor for the development of depression. In 2 experiments, the authors examined mood-congruent attentional bias in dysphoria. In both experiments, dysphoric and nondysphoric participants performed an attentional task with negative, positive, and neutral word cues preceding a target. Targets appeared either at the same or at the opposite location of the cue. Overall, results indicate that dysphoric participants show maintained attention for negative words at longer stimulus presentations, which is probably caused by impaired attentional disengagement from negative words. Furthermore, nondysphoric participants maintain their attention more strongly to positive words. These results are discussed in relation to recent developments in the pathogenesis and treatment of depression. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)}, author = {Koster, Ernst H. and De Raedt, Rudi and Goeleven, Ellen and Franck, Erik and Crombez, Geert}, citeulike-article-id = {455140}, journal = {Emotion}, keywords = {attentional-bias, depression, dysphoria}, month = {December}, number = {4}, posted-at = {2007-05-14 02:09:45}, priority = {2}, title = {Mood-congruent attentional bias in dysphoria: maintained attention to and impaired disengagement from negative information.}, volume = {5}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:455140 L3 - citeulike-article-id:455140 N2 - Attentional bias to negative information has been proposed to be a cognitive vulnerability factor for the development of depression. In 2 experiments, the authors examined mood-congruent attentional bias in dysphoria. In both experiments, dysphoric and nondysphoric participants performed an attentional task with negative, positive, and neutral word cues preceding a target. Targets appeared either at the same or at the opposite location of the cue. Overall, results indicate that dysphoric participants show maintained attention for negative words at longer stimulus presentations, which is probably caused by impaired attentional disengagement from negative words. Furthermore, nondysphoric participants maintain their attention more strongly to positive words. These results are discussed in relation to recent developments in the pathogenesis and treatment of depression. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved) IS - 4 JF - Emotion TI - Mood-congruent attentional bias in dysphoria: maintained attention to and impaired disengagement from negative information. VL - 5 KW - attentional-bias KW - depression KW - dysphoria AU - Koster, Ernst AU - De Raedt, Rudi AU - Goeleven, Ellen AU - Franck, Erik AU - Crombez, Geert PY - 2005/12// ER -