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CAN SELECTIVE ATTENTION FOR BODILY INFORMATION BE INDUCED BY FEAR?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2001

Sabine Kroeze  and
Marcel A. van den Hout
Sabine Kroeze
Affiliation:
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Marcel A. van den Hout
Affiliation:
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Selective attention for bodily sensations is often found in patients with panic disorder. Whether this may be the result of fear was investigated in a group of normal subjects. Subjects were made to fear an acceleration in their heartbeats or an increase in their muscle tension by threatening them with an electric shock should this occur. When subjects were under threat of these shocks, attention for ECG and EMG feedback was measured. Although the task seemed sensitive to the manipulation, no evidence was found for selective attention for fear-relevant information. Several shortcomings of the task are discussed.

Keywords

Panic disorderselective attentionpainheartrate feedback
Type
Brief Clinical Reports
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 235 - 239
Copyright
© 2001 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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