TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Transfer of training emotionally biased interpretations
JO  - Applied cognitive psychology
A1  - Hertel, Paula T.
A1  - Mathews, Andrew
A1  - Peterson, Samanthe
A1  - Kintner, Katherine
SP  - 775
EP  - 784
VL  - 17
IS  - 7
N2  - Non-anxious college students first performed a semantic-judgement task that was designed to train either threat-related or threat-unrelated interpretations of threat-ambiguous homographs (e.g. mug). Next they performed an ostensibly separate transfer task of constructing personal mental images for single words, in a series that included new, threat-ambiguous homographs. In two experiments, the number of threat-related interpretations in the transfer task significantly increased following threat-related experience during the training phase, compared to other training conditions. We conclude that interpretive biases typically shown by anxious people can be established in non-anxious students in ways that generalize to novel tasks and materials. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0888-4080
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.905
ID  - ref1
ER  -