Selective attention to threat in the dot probe paradigm: differentiating vigilance and difficulty to disengage.

By Ernst H. W. Koster, Geert Crombez, Bruno Verschuere, J. de Houwer. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Loneliness Across the Life Span (2015, positive): “Researchers using such an approach could target lonely children for attentional training by using tasks that elicit selective attention to social threat (e.g., emotional faces or dot-probe tasks; Koster, Crombez, Verschuere, & De Houwer, 2004; Norman, Lawrence, Iles, Benattayallah, & Karl, 2014).”
Faces capture attention: Evidence from inhibition of return (2006, background): “Even though it is clear that there are too many substantial concerns with the classic probe dot methodology to infer attentional capture, the technique has been used in a wide variety of studies investigating capture by emotional and threatening words, faces, and objects in a whole range of clinical”
Danger stereotypes predict racially biased attentional allocation (2008, background): “Recently, Koster et al. (2004) used this attentional cueing task to show that fear-conditioned stimuli both capture attention faster and hold attention longer than neutral stimuli.”
Implicit Motives Modulate Attentional Orienting to Facial Expressions of Emotion (2007, methodology): “Using variants of the DPT, both Derryberry and Reed (1994) and Koster, Crombez, Verschuere, and De Houwer (2004) have shown that salient incentives are not necessarily more likely to capture attention, but are more likely to hold a person’s attention once it is engaged.”
The effects of emotion on attention: A review of attentional processing of emotional information (2010, background): “Koster and colleagues (Koster, Crombez, Verschuere, & DeHouwer, 2004b ) were the first to describe this variation, finding attentional bias for mild and severe threat pictures in the general population.”
Attention to Threat in Anxiety-prone Individuals: Mechanisms Underlying Attentional Bias (2006, methodology): “We examined the nature of attentional biases in anxiety-vulnerability using the adjusted dot probe methodology (cf. Koster et al., 2004) with moderately and highly threatening pictures.”