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Preattentive bias for snake words in snake phobia?

In English

Författare

  • Jenny Wikström
  • Lars-Gunnar Lundh
  • Joakim Westerlund
  • Lennart Högman

Summary, in English

Stroop interference and skin conductance responses (SCRs) for words related to snakes, spiders, flowers, and mushrooms were studied in a group of women (n=40) with snake phobia who were randomised to a stress or no-stress condition. The 21 low-stress snake phobics showed Stroop interference for unmasked (but not for masked) snake words, compared with 21 age- and sex-matched controls. Stroop interference was not significantly different between high-stress and low-stress snake phobics. No support for stronger SCRs for masked snake words was found in snake phobics in a lexical decision task with masked presentations of the same words. The lack of a masked Stroop interference in snake phobics suggests a possible difference in cognitive–emotional mechanisms underlying specific phobia vs. other anxiety disorders that deserves further investigation.

Publiceringsår

2004

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

949-970

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volym

42

Issue

8

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Psychology

Nyckelord

  • Emotional Stroop task
  • Masked words
  • SCR
  • Specific phobia
  • Preattentive bias

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1873-622X