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Notebaert, Lies; Masschelein, Stijn; Wright, Bridget; MacLeod, Colin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Anxiety prepares an organism for dealing with threats by recruiting cognitive resources to process information about the threat, and by engaging physiological systems to prepare a response. Heightened trait anxiety is associated with biases in both these processes: high trait-anxious individuals tend to report heightened risk perceptions, and…
Descriptors: Risk, Anxiety, Cognitive Processes, Physiology