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Attentional Bias
Attention can be allocated differently to threat or personally relevant cues, particularly in anxiety—but the pattern depends on the person, task and timing.
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Checked source previewAcademic paper
A Review of Current Evidence for the Causal Impact of Attentional Bias on Fear and Anxiety
Research-assisted source review
- What it supports
- Associations were not fully consistent and evidence for stable individual differences was limited. Some studies supported effects in both directions, making a bidirectional or mutually reinforcing account more plausible than a simple one-way cause.
- Where it may not transfer
- The review covers heterogeneous tasks, populations and outcomes and does not provide a product-design effect estimate. Training-induced task changes do not justify exposing users to threat or claiming that an interface cue caused anxiety.
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