Experienced disgust causes a negative interpretation bias: a causal role for disgust in anxious psychopathology.

摘要: This paper reports the results of an experiment investigating effect induced disgust on interpretational bias using homophone spelling task. Four groups participants experienced a disgust, anxiety, happy or neutral mood induction and then completed task which requires participant to interpret ambiguous words presented through headphones. Both anxiety interpreted significantly more threat/neutral homophones as threat than both groups; group also fewer positive/neutral positive group. These findings are consistent with view that causes negative is similar reported for anxiety. The could not be in terms concurrently raising levels self-reported but maintaining existing was facilitate interpretations rather emotional regardless valence. provide basis causal role anxious psychopathology. Because non-specific emotion-congruent one, elevated will result predisposition information threatening way across broad range anxious- threat-relevant domains.