Cognitive Bias in Spider-Phobic Children: Comparison of a Pictorial and a Linguistic Spider Stroop |
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| Authors: | Merel Kindt Jos F. Brosschot |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Medical, Clinical and Experimental Psychology, MD, Maastricht University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maastricht, The Netherlands;(2) Section Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Leiden, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | The relation between spider fear in children and cognitive processing bias toward threatening information was examined. It was investigated whether spider fear in children is related to a cognitive bias for threatening pictures and words. Pictorial and linguistic Stroop stimuli were administered to 28 spider phobic and 30 control children aged 8–12. Spider-phobic children showed a moderate bias for threatening words. Surprisingly, no bias was found for spider pictures, while the spider-phobic children judged the pictures as more aversive. Moreover, in a recent similar study in adults (Kindt & Brosschot, 1997), a strong relation between spider phobia and bias toward threat words and pictures was found. Several explanations are given to account for this divergence. |
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| Keywords: | cognitive bias spider-phobic children pictorial and linguistic Stroop |
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