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Experimental modification of interpretation bias about animal fear in young children: effects on cognition, avoidance behavior, anxiety vulnerability, and physiological responding
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posted on 2023-06-08, 17:03 authored by Kathryn LesterKathryn Lester, Andy FieldAndy Field, Peter MurisThis study investigated the effects of experimentally modifying interpretation biases for children's cognitions, avoidance behavior, anxiety vulnerability, and physiological responding. Sixty-seven children (6–11 years) were randomly assigned to receive a positive or negative interpretation bias modification procedure to induce interpretation biases toward or away from threat about ambiguous situations involving Australian marsupials. Children rapidly learned to select outcomes of ambiguous situations, which were congruent with their assigned condition. Furthermore, following positive modification, children's threat biases about novel ambiguous situations significantly decreased, whereas threat biases significantly increased after negative modification. In response to a stress-evoking behavioral avoidance test, positive modification attenuated behavioral avoidance compared to negative modification. However, no significant effects of bias modification on anxiety vulnerability or physiological responses to this stress-evoking Behavioral Avoidance Task were observed.
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Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent PsychologyISSN
1537-4416Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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6Volume
40Page range
864-877Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
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2014-08-07Usage metrics
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