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Margaret M. Bradley

Researcher at University of Florida

Publications -  181
Citations -  49553

Margaret M. Bradley is an academic researcher from University of Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anxiety & Moro reflex. The author has an hindex of 79, co-authored 176 publications receiving 45795 citations. Previous affiliations of Margaret M. Bradley include University of Bologna & Honda.

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Fearful imagery in social phobia: generalization, comorbidity, and physiological reactivity.

TL;DR: Subtypes of social phobia can be objectively distinguished in patterns of physiological reactivity, and subtypes vary systematically in chronicity and defensive engagement with the shortest disorder duration associated with the most robust and focal physiological reactsivity.
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State anxiety and affective physiology: effects of sustained exposure to affective pictures.

TL;DR: S sustained exposure to unpleasant pictures may induce a short-term mood state, and may be a useful paradigm to study individuals who vary in symptoms of anxiety.
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Appetitive and Defensive Motivation: Goal-Directed or Goal-Determined?

TL;DR: Research from the laboratory that measures autonomic, central, and somatic reactions when processing emotional scenes is described, which indicates that motivationally relevant cues, whether appetitive or defensive, capture attention preferentially, prompt enhanced perceptual processing and information gathering, and occasion metabolic arousal that mobilizes the organism for coping actions.