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One paradigm that allows the investigation of the processing of threatening stimuli when the threatening information itself is not task-relevant is the emotional Stroop paradigm.
Miller [ 15– 17] has designated two main information preference styles in potentially threatening circumstances: monitoring (seeking out and attending to threatening information), and blunting (avoiding threatening information and cognitively distracting from it).
Greater attentional bias towards threatening information was associated with greater emotional reactivity to the stressor task.
Research in the last fifteen years suggests that anxious individuals selectively attend towards threatening information.
MBCS refers to the tendency to either attend to and amplify, or distract oneself from and minimize threatening information.
They are biased toward negative or threatening information in their environment, and they tend to see ambiguous information in a negative light (Romens et al. 2011).
The present study sought to clarify this by examining the possibility that tDCS may affect emotional vulnerability via its capacity to modulate attentional bias towards threatening information.
These findings suggest that an attentional bias towards threatening information plays a role in worry persistence, and that explicit instructions may be helpful in modifying this bias.
Phobias and hypochondria have also been shown to involve confirmation bias for threatening information.
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We know from the WikiLeaks case that among the legions of Internet aggregators and disseminators are at least a few who would feel no compunction about disclosing life-threatening information if they got their hands on it.
Mnemic neglect is believed to be due to shallow processing or inhibition of self-threatening information.
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