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task situation, individuals with high emotional stability had lower LFnorm, HFnorm, LF/HF ratio
and HR. When it comes to flying situation, individuals with high emotional stability had higher
LFnorm, HFnorm, but LF/HF ratio and HR were still lower. We find a tendency which implies the
situational separation of fluctuation of autonomic nervous system related to emotional stability.
2078.4 Cognitive impairment in major depressed patients under Chinese emotional words
discrimination task: An event-related potential study, Da-xing Wu, Shu-qiao Yao, Wenbin Guo,
Zhening Liou, Xiang Wang, China
Disturbed negative cognitive bias is a well-recognized feature of major depressed patients. The
aim of this study was to investigate event-related potentials (ERPs) effects under emotional words
to reveal the cognitive impairment character in major depressed patients. We recorded the effects
of ERPs in 16 major depressed patients and 18 healthy subjects while they performed Chinese
emotional words discrimination task. These findings showed that cognitive dysfunction of
prefrontal cerebral cortex was brain mechanisms of negative cognitive bias in major depressed
patients.
2078.5 Attentional bias in social anxiety, Reza Pishyar, Lynne Harris, Ross Menzies, The
University of Sydney, Australia
This paper compares the usefulness of three dot probe measures in detecting attentional bias
towards emotional stimuli among people with social anxiety. The ecological validity of the stimuli
was varied. Task 1 used pairs of emotional and neutral words, Task 2 used pairs of emotional and
neutral faces photographed in front view, and Task 3 used pairs of emotional and neutral faces
photographed in profile as though looking at each other. From these studies it appears that the
facial dot probe task is a more sensitive index of attentional bias than the word task in non-clinical
samples with social anxiety.
2078.6 Predicting performance concerns prior to examinations: An evaluation of the masked
stroop interference index, Lynne Harris, Steven Cumming, The University of Sydney, Australia
It has been suggested that the masked stroop interference index (MSII) may be a better predictor
of emotional vulnerability in response to stressors than standard self-report measures of anxiety
and depression (e.g., MacLeod & Hagan, 1992; Van den Hout, Tenney, Huygens, Merckelbach &
Kindt, 1995). A longitudinal study compared the MSII, the unmasked Stroop interference index
and self-report measures of anxiety and worry taken early in semester as predictors of
self-reported concerns about assessment taken later in the semester when exam-related worry and
anxiety had increased. Self-report measures were the most useful predictors of later worry about
assessments.
2078.7 The vulnerability of the self: Changes in implicit and explicit affect through
self-confrontation, Markus Quirin, Julius Kuhl, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
To investigate implicit vulnerability of the self, subjects described themselves, whereas control
subjects described other people. Before and afterwards, explicit affects were measured by a
checklist. Implicit affects were measured by word fragment completions as well as by a new
developed instrument. Implicit negative affect increased through self-confrontation and decreased
through other-confrontation. In contrast to implicit affect, changes in explicit affect are related to
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