INTRODUCTION . . . . 5
CHAPTER 1. THEORETICAL MODELS OF INFORMATION PROCESSING
SELECTIVE IN ANXIETY . 7
1.1. Early models: Beck and Emery (1985) and Bower (1981) 9
1.2. The model of Williams et al. (1988 / 1997) . 12
1.3. The cognitive-motivational model of anxiety (Mogg and Bradley, 1998) 18
1.4. The model of Mathews and Mackintosh (1998) . 21
1.5. The theory of the four factors of anxiety (Eysenck, 1997) and the theory of attentional control (Eysenck et al., 2007) . 23
1.6. Evolutionary perspectives on selective processing in anxiety: Öhman (1993); Öhman and Mineka (2001) . 26
1.7. Robinson’s computational model (1998) . . 34
1.8. The implementation model of LeDoux (1996) . 39
1.9. Componential analysis of attentional biases (Fox et al., 2001) . 45
1.10. Final remarks on selective information processing in anxiety 47
CHAPTER 2. EXPERIMENTAL PARADIGMS USED IN THE STUDY
BEWARE OF BIAS . 50
2.1. Emotional Stroop Test . 51
2.2. Dot Probe Experimental Task 55
2.3. Perceptual identification task . 60
2.4. The task of dichotomous listening . 62
2.5. Visual exploration task . 63
2.6. The task of exogenous attentional cues . 66
2.7. Lexical categorization task . . . 68
2.8. Final remarks on the experimental paradigms used in the study of attentional biases in anxiety . . 70
CHAPTER 3. SPECIFIC ATTENTION BIAS IN ANXIETY . 73
3.1. Attentional biases in anxiety between threat, bipolar emotionality and personal relevance . . 73
3.2. Attentional biases between early detection and delayed disengagement 76
3.3. Study 1: Experimental confrontation of competing hypotheses in explaining the specificity of attentional biases in anxiety . 85
3.4. The temporal evolution of attentional biases in anxiety. Vigilance-avoidance hypothesis 134
3.5. Biasing of attention and repression . . 137
3.6. Study 2. The impact of repression on the temporal evolution of attentional biases in anxiety . 144
CHAPTER 4. THE ROLE OF ATTENTION BIAS IN REACTIVITY
NEGATIVE EMOTIONAL . . . 168
4.1. Biasing of attention and emotional vulnerability 168
4.2. Study 3. Analysis of the causal role of attentional biases in negative emotional reactivity . 175
CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSIONS ANDFINAL DISCUSSIONS . 197
BIBLIOGRAPHY . 205
APPENDICES . . . 224
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