Emotional States, Attention, and Working Memory
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affective states and cognitive control
anxiety
anxious
attentional
bias
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cognitive inhibition
control
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executive function
high
individuals
low
motivational intensity
rumination
theory
trait
trait anxiety research
visual-spatial memory
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- ISBN 9781848727168
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 25 Mar 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This Special Issue is concerned with the effects of three emotional states (positive affect; anxiety; and depression) on performance. More specifically, the contributors focus on the potential mediating effects of attention and of executive processes of working memory. The evidence discussed suggests that anxiety and depression both impair the executive functions of shifting and inhibition, in part due to task-irrelevant processing (e.g., rumination; worry). In contrast, positive affect seems to enhance the shifting function and does not impair the inhibition function. The complicating role of motivational intensity is also discussed, as are implications for future research.
Nazanin Derakhshan, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Michael Eysenck, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
