Search for dissertations about: "preattentive bias"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words preattentive bias.

  2. 1. Cognitive-behavioral treatment and theory in posttraumatic stress disorder

    Author : Nenad Paunović; Terence Keane; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; acute PTSD; crime victims; prevention; chronic PTSD; refugees; cognitive-behavior therapy; exposure therapy; Stroop task; attentional and memory bias; preattentive bias; face recognition.; psykologi; Psychology;

    Abstract : The present dissertation contains four empirical studies. The first two investigated the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral (CBT) treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by randomizing patients to two different groups. The last two are experimental studies that tested parts of the cognitive theory of PTSD. READ MORE

  4. 2. Does the way in which we perceive the world make us susceptible to anxiety?

    Author : Billy Jansson; Lars-Göran Öst; Lars-Gunnar Lundh; Marcel Van den Hout; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Preattentive processing; selective attention; trait anxiety; defensiveness; emotional responses; emotional vulnerability; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Abstract : One major focus of anxiety research in recent years has been the identification of cognitive factors that promote increased vulnerability to anxiety. Cognitive formulations propose that anxiety is characterised by an increased tendency to attend to negatively valenced emotional information, and that this bias may play a causal role in the development and maintenance of clinical anxiety. READ MORE