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New perspectives in attentional control theory

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Attentional control theory is developed to explicate the relationship between anxiety and motivation and implications for theoretical predictions and alternative theoretical accounts are discussed.
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This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 562 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Attentional control & Cognitive neuroscience.

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On the importance of being flexible: early interrelations between affective flexibility, executive functions and anxiety symptoms in preschoolers

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the contribution of executive flexibility in children's emotional processing when confronted with an emotional problem and found that affective flexibility mobilizes their cognitive and emotional resources to optimally address it.
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Reducing anxiety and attentional bias with reward association learning and attentional bias modification

TL;DR: In this article , the effects of reward associative learning procedure and traditional threat avoidance ABM paradigm on anxiety and attentional bias were examined, and the effect of reward training on reducing anxiety was only obtained in the reward training condition.
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Avaliação emocional em acupunctura

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of acupuncture on anxiety levels, trait and state was investigated in a study with 21 normal individuals, college students, between 19 and 24 years, undergoing 8 sessions of acupuncture: twice a week, for 4 weeks.
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The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex "Frontal Lobe" tasks: a latent variable analysis.

TL;DR: The results suggest that it is important to recognize both the unity and diversity ofExecutive functions and that latent variable analysis is a useful approach to studying the organization and roles of executive functions.
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Anxiety and cognitive performance: Attentional control theory.

TL;DR: Attentional control theory is an approach to anxiety and cognition representing a major development of Eysenck and Calvo's (1992) processing efficiency theory and may not impair performance effectiveness when it leads to the use of compensatory strategies (e.g., enhanced effort; increased use of processing resources).
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The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) and its correlates

TL;DR: A questionnaire measure of self-reported failures in perception, memory, and motor function, the most plausible view is that cognitive failure makes a person vulnerable to showing bad effects of stress, rather than itself resulting from stress.
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Anxiety and Performance: The Processing Efficiency Theory

TL;DR: Theories of anxiety and performance need to address at least two major issues: (1) the complexity and apparent inconsistency of the findings; and (2) the conceptual definition of task difficulty as mentioned in this paper.
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The relations among inhibition and interference control functions: a latent-variable analysis.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the term inhibition has been overextended and that researchers need to be more specific when discussing and measuring inhibition-related functions.
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