APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Temporal Trends in Attention Disengagement from Social Threat As a Function of Social Anxiety
- Anastasia McGlade
University of California, Los Angeles - Andrea Niles
University of California, San Francisco - Michelle Craske
University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract
Research suggests that anxious individuals show difficulty disengaging attention from threat. We investigated this relationship using a temporal dynamics approach that examined disengagement from social threat over time (256 trials). Results demonstrate initial difficulty disengaging attention from both angry and disapproving facial stimuli as a function of social anxiety.
Attention
