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Anxiety and Cognition

This theory proposes that individual differences in anxiety can be explained by four types of cognitive biases that occur at different points in the emotional response process. Highly anxious individuals tend to exaggerate threats and have negative interpretations. Repressors minimize threats. Low anxious people do not have strong cognitive biases. The theory aims to understand anxiety in high anxious, repressors, low anxious, and defensively high anxious individuals.

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Anxiety and Cognition

This theory proposes that individual differences in anxiety can be explained by four types of cognitive biases that occur at different points in the emotional response process. Highly anxious individuals tend to exaggerate threats and have negative interpretations. Repressors minimize threats. Low anxious people do not have strong cognitive biases. The theory aims to understand anxiety in high anxious, repressors, low anxious, and defensively high anxious individuals.

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ANXIETY AND COGNITION: A UNIFIED THEORY

Schemas

Emotional Stimulus Cognitive Appraisal

Physiological Activity Emotional Action Tendencies Behavior Experience

Cognitions

This theory is designed to apply to four groups of individuals based on the terminology introduced by Weinberger et al.: low-anxious; repressors; high-anxious; and defensive high-anxious. The fundamental assumption added that there are fairly consistent individual differences in the cognitive biases operating at four different points within the emotional system. The major predictions of the four-factor theory are straightforward. It is assumed that highanxious individuals have selective attentional and interpretive biases leading them to exaggerate or magnify the threateningness of internal and external stimuli. High-anxious individuals have cognitive biases associated with the cognitive appraisal of the situation, as well as the processing of information about their own physiological activity, action tendencies and behavior, and cognitions. It is assumed that repressors have opposite selective attentional and interpretive biases, leading them to minimize the threat of external and internal stimuli. Low-anxious individuals generally do not have either cognitive biases or opposite cognitive biases.

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