Date of Award
8-2007
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Dr. Beth Crawford
Second Advisor
Dr. Peter O. LeViness
Third Advisor
Dr. Roxann Roberson-Nay
Abstract
The study sought to investigate potential differences in automatic spatial processing of threatening and positive information in anxious and non-anxious individuals. Participants evaluated threatening and positive words and pictures in a memory task in which the stimuli's varying spatial position was incidental to the task. Participants demonstrated increased accuracy with threatening stimuli, and a decreased accuracy when the word location varied between initial presentation and test. The results did not provide evidence that threatening stimuli were associated with an increased degree of spatial processing, or that this relationship would be influenced by trait anxiety.
Recommended Citation
Hansen, Ryan W., "Automatic spatial processing of threatening and positive information in participants with high and low levels of trait anxiety" (2007). Master's Theses. 681.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/masters-theses/681