Avoidant Coping Style to High Imminence Threat Is Linked to Higher Anxiety-Like Behavior
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Anxiety, attention, and coping with threat.
It was hypothesized that anxiety provoked by a threat over which S had no control would lead to reduced responsiveness to stimuli in the periphery of attention, but that no such effect would be evident when S was given a means of coping with the threat. Ss threatened with shock performed no differently than an unthreatened control group on a tracking task occupying the center of their attention...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1662-5153
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00034