Poppy Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4600651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Poppy Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Poppy |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7454-413X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The role of motivation in delayed disengagement from threat in anxiety
The idea that highly anxious individuals have difficulty disengaging attention from threat is widely accepted, yet empirical support is limited. The term "difficulty" implies an involuntary delay in disengagement, but this has not been rigorously tested. Across three pre-registered experiments, we examined disengagement using different stimuli and protocols. Emotional and neutral images appeared at fixation, and healthy participants varying in se…
Isolating delayed attentional disengagement from biased orienting to signals of threat in anxiety – not there yet
(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2011.638054] critiqued this literature, pointing out that most studies used paradigms that could not isolate attentional disengagement from attentional orienting. Since this critique, over fifty studies claiming to measure attentional disengagement from threat in anxiety have been published, many using suboptimal methods. In this (preregistered) systematic review and meta-analysis, we outline why many o…
You do it to yourself
Recent research has demonstrated a counterproductive attentional bias toward threat-related stimuli: under conditions in which fixating on a color distractor stimulus sometimes resulted in an immediate shock, participants were nevertheless more likely to look at this threat-related distractor than a neutral distractor matched for physical salience. However, participants in that prior research may not have realized that their own actions caused de…
Supplemental Material for You Do It to Yourself
This document describes analyses of gaze dwell time on CS+ and CS-distractor stimuli, and latencies of first saccades towards distractors and targets, in Experiments 1 and 2
Competing influences on healthy food choices
Eating restraint is associated with reduced attentional capture by signals of valuable food reward
Delayed disengagement of attention from distractors signalling reward
Failing to pay heed to health warnings in a food-associated environment
An associative account of how the obesogenic environment biases adolescents' food choices
Cue-elicited responding for food rewards
Working for food you don’t desire. Cues interfere with goal-directed food-seeking
Working for food you don’t desire. Cues interfere with goal-directed food-seeking
An associative account of how the obesogenic environment biases adolescents' food choices
Eating restraint is associated with reduced attentional capture by signals of valuable food reward
Competing influences on healthy food choices
Working for food you don’t desire. Cues interfere with goal-directed food-seeking
An associative account of how the obesogenic environment biases adolescents' food choices
Cue-elicited responding for food rewards
Failing to pay heed to health warnings in a food-associated environment
Delayed disengagement of attention from distractors signalling reward
You do it to yourself
Recent research has demonstrated a counterproductive attentional bias toward threat-related stimuli: under conditions in which fixating on a color distractor stimulus sometimes resulted in an immediate shock, participants were nevertheless more likely to look at this threat-related distractor than a neutral distractor matched for physical salience. However, participants in that prior research may not have realized that their own actions caused de…
Supplemental Material for You Do It to Yourself
This document describes analyses of gaze dwell time on CS+ and CS-distractor stimuli, and latencies of first saccades towards distractors and targets, in Experiments 1 and 2
Competing influences on healthy food choices
Eating restraint is associated with reduced attentional capture by signals of valuable food reward
Isolating delayed attentional disengagement from biased orienting to signals of threat in anxiety – not there yet
(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2011.638054] critiqued this literature, pointing out that most studies used paradigms that could not isolate attentional disengagement from attentional orienting. Since this critique, over fifty studies claiming to measure attentional disengagement from threat in anxiety have been published, many using suboptimal methods. In this (preregistered) systematic review and meta-analysis, we outline why many o…
The role of motivation in delayed disengagement from threat in anxiety
The idea that highly anxious individuals have difficulty disengaging attention from threat is widely accepted, yet empirical support is limited. The term "difficulty" implies an involuntary delay in disengagement, but this has not been rigorously tested. Across three pre-registered experiments, we examined disengagement using different stimuli and protocols. Emotional and neutral images appeared at fixation, and healthy participants varying in se…
Psychology (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (4 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (4 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (3 works)