What is it about?
Anxiety is related to differences in how emotional social signals are processed. Often when emotional faces need to be recognised there will be distracting emotional social signals present. This paper looks at what happens in a situation where happy and fearful faces need recognising, but when there are intermittent conflicting emotional social signals present.
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Why is it important?
Research of this kind will help us to understand how anxiety relates to micro level adjustments in the control of attention and goal directed behaviour, when emotional social signals need to be processed.
Perspectives
Hopefully this paper will show that there are still interesting discoveries to be made concerning how cognition is altered in anxiety.
Andrew du Rocher
Goldsmiths university of London
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This page is a summary of: Trait anxiety, infrequent emotional conflict, and the emotional face Stroop task, Personality and Individual Differences, June 2017, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.02.017.
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