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2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 947-955 ◽  
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G. Caleb Alexander ◽  
Jennifer Humensky ◽  
Cesar Guerrero ◽  
Hannah Park ◽  
George Loewenstein
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2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod Duclos ◽  
Jim Bettman ◽  
Paul Bloom ◽  
Gal Zauberman

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36 ◽  
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Caroline Meyer ◽  
Lucy Serpell ◽  
Glenn Waller ◽  
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1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Calvo Manuel ◽  
M. Dolores Castillo

Three experiments investigated the tendency of high-anxiety individuals to interpret ambiguous information in a threatening fashion. Priming ambiguous sentences (concerned with ego-threat, physical-threat, or non-threat events) were presented, followed by a disambiguating sentence in which a target word either confirmed or disconfirmed the consequence implied by the priming context. The sentences were presented word-by-word at a predetermined pace. Subjects read the sentences and pronounced the target word (naming task), which appeared either 500 msec or 1,250 msec after the onset of the last word (pre-target word) in the priming context. Results indicated that high-anxiety subjects named target words confirming threats faster than low-anxiety subjects, relative to non-threat words. Furthermore, this interpretative bias is: (a) strategic, rather than automatic, as it occurred with a 1,250-msec SOA, but not with a 500-msec SOA; (b) temporary, as it was found under evaluative stress conditions increasing state anxiety, but not with non-stress; and (c) specific to ego-threats, as it happened with ambiguous information concerning self-esteem and social evaluation, rather than with physical-threat-related information.


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