TY - JOUR
T1 - When time slows down
T2 - The influence of threat on time perception in anxiety
AU - Bar-Haim, Yair
AU - Kerem, Aya
AU - Lamy, Dominique
AU - Zakay, Dan
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to: Yair Bar-Haim, The Adler Center for Research in Child Development and Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] This study was supported by an Israeli Science Foundation grant (ISF 964/08) to YBH.
PY - 2010/2
Y1 - 2010/2
N2 - Here, we explored the effect of exposure to threat versus neutral stimuli on time perception in anxious (n=29) and non-anxious (n=29) individuals using predictions from the attentional gate model (AGM) of time perception. Results indicate that relative to non-anxious individuals, anxious individuals subjectively experience time as moving more slowly when exposed to short (2-second) presentations of threat stimuli, and that group differences disappear with longer exposure durations (4 and 8 seconds). Coupled with classic reports of enhanced attentional bias toward threat and diminished attentional control under stress in anxious individuals this finding provides novel insights into low-level cognitive processes that could shape and maintain the subjective experience of anxiety. Findings are discussed in relation to predictions from the AGM and cognitive accounts of anxiety.
AB - Here, we explored the effect of exposure to threat versus neutral stimuli on time perception in anxious (n=29) and non-anxious (n=29) individuals using predictions from the attentional gate model (AGM) of time perception. Results indicate that relative to non-anxious individuals, anxious individuals subjectively experience time as moving more slowly when exposed to short (2-second) presentations of threat stimuli, and that group differences disappear with longer exposure durations (4 and 8 seconds). Coupled with classic reports of enhanced attentional bias toward threat and diminished attentional control under stress in anxious individuals this finding provides novel insights into low-level cognitive processes that could shape and maintain the subjective experience of anxiety. Findings are discussed in relation to predictions from the AGM and cognitive accounts of anxiety.
KW - Anxiety
KW - Arousal
KW - Attention bias
KW - Face
KW - Time perception
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=76949092794&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02699930903387603
DO - 10.1080/02699930903387603
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AN - SCOPUS:76949092794
SN - 0269-9931
VL - 24
SP - 255
EP - 263
JO - Cognition and Emotion
JF - Cognition and Emotion
IS - 2
ER -