Essays about: "Disgust Fear Detection Response bias"

Found 1 essay containing the words Disgust Fear Detection Response bias.

  1. 1. Disgust and fear in detection performance and response biases to threat pictures

    University essay from Psykologiska institutionen

    Author : Moa Johansson; [2007]
    Keywords : Disgust Fear Detection Response bias;

    Abstract : Cognitive theories claim that phobias involve unconscious processing and that anxious individuals search the environment for threatening stimuli and therefore detect them more rapidly. However, evidence for this is mixed and suggests that anxious individuals do not detect threat more accurately but are more liberal to report that they detected threat even if there was no actual threat (response bias). READ MORE