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attention
Your attention is silently pulled toward what you fear.
An attentional bias causes the mind to demonstrate an initial orientation toward threat-related stimuli before conscious awareness.
Change 'scan for and dwell on' to 'demonstrate an initial orientation toward'.
You are always looking for trouble, whether you realize it or not.
Where this comes from
- Study
- MacLeod et al. (1986) in Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- What the check found
- The study confirms initial attentional bias toward threat, but 'dwelling' implies a maintenance of attention that the original dot-probe task design was not primarily intended to measure.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.