The effects of imminent minor surgery on the cognitive processing of health and interpersonal threat words
- 1 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Clinical Psychology
- Vol. 28 (3) , 281-282
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8260.1989.tb01379.x
Abstract
Women in hospital for a laparoscopy and control subjects were examined on a version of the Stroop test in which the distracting effect of word content on speed of colour naming was examined. Both laparoscopy patients and controls were slowed by words related to interpersonal threat but only the laparoscopy patients were slowed by words that related to health threats. This suggests that a specific temporary threat can alter attentional biases.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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