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Suárez Pellicioni, Macarena
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Núñez Peña, María Isabel
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Colomé, Àngels
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2017-09-01T08:15:46Z
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2017-09-01T08:15:46Z
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2015-09-29
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2017-09-01T08:15:46Z
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https://hdl.handle.net/2445/114868
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Attentional bias towards threatening or emotional information is considered a cognitive marker of anxiety, and it has been described in various clinical and subclinical populations. This study used an emotional Stroop task to investigate whether math anxiety is characterized by an attentional bias towards math-related words. Two previous studies failed to observe such an effect in math-anxious individuals, although the authors acknowledged certain methodological limitations that the present study seeks to avoid. Twenty high math-anxious (HMA) and 20 low math-anxious (LMA) individuals were presented with an emotional Stroop task including math-related and neutral words. Participants in the two groups did not differ in trait anxiety or depression. We found that the HMA group showed slower response times to math-related words than to neutral words, which constitutes the first demonstration of an attentional bias towards math-related words in HMA individuals.
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application/pdf
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Frontiers Media
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Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01577
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015, vol. 6, p. 1577
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01577
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cc-by (c) Suárez Pellicioni, Macarena et al., 2015
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Articles publicats en revistes (Psicologia Social i Psicologia Quantitativa)
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Attentional bias in high math-anxious individuals: evidence from an emotional Stroop task
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
