APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Attention Bias to Infant Faces Predicts Maternal State Anxiety Symptoms
- Jaffni Pagavathsing
University of Toronto - Joanna Dudek
University of Toronto - David Haley
University of Toronto
Abstract
Using a modified Go/No-Go task, we tested the novel hypothesis that attention bias to infant faces constitutes a sensitive index of maternal anxiety. The results supported our hypothesis. We speculate that attention bias to infant faces is a function of conscious, controlled attention processes (disengagement, inhibition) rather than automatic ones.
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