Why worry? The cognitive function of anxiety
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23374136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Mathews (Louisiana State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 455-468 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Behaviour Research and Therapy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0005-7967 • E-ISSN: 1873-622X |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/0005-7967(90)90132-3 |
| PMID | 2076083 |
| OpenAlex | W2167024474 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 97 |
| References cited | 66 |
Anxiety · Anxiety disorder · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Information processing · Mood · Psychiatry · Trait anxiety · Vigilance (psychology) · Worry · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Clinical Psychology · Mental Health Research Topics · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology
The links between symptom burden, illness perception, psychological resilience, social support, coping modes, and cancer-related worry in Chinese early-stage lung cancer patients after surgery
Meta-analytic structural equation modeling with mediation role of problematic mobile phone use between solitude and anxiety and depression
Competing for attentional priority
Is there a mutual relationship between opposite attentional biases underlying anxiety
The cognitive and hedonic costs of dwelling on achievement-related negative experiences
Anxiety enhances threat processing without competition among multiple inputs
Anxiety and cognitive inhibition
Human anterior and posterior hippocampus respond distinctly to state and trait anxiety
Aproximaciones cognitivas a la investigación sobre el delirio persecutorio
Unmasking effects of speech emotional prosody and semantics on auditory informational masking
Anxiety, Immigration, and the Search for Information
Bridging emotion theory and neurobiology through dynamic systems modeling
A stitch in time
Do sex and violence sell? A meta-analytic review of the effects of sexual and violent media and ad content on memory, attitudes, and buying intentions
Threat-related attentional bias in anxious and nonanxious individuals
Sensitive maintenance
Testing the limits of optimistic bias
Understanding the dark and bright sides of anxiety
Anxious, threatened, and also unethical
Diagnose Angstgesellschaft?
Anxious Politics
Anxiety-related attentional biases and their regulation by attentional control.
Do threatening stimuli draw or hold visual attention in subclinical anxiety?
Introducing Fear of Crime to Risk Research
A model of neurovisceral integration in emotion regulation and dysregulation
Reassessing the Fear of Crime
Worry
Behavioral Inhibition
A cognitive-motivational analysis of anxiety
Why do people worry?
An information processing model of anxiety
Motivating the Focus of Attention
The effects of emotion on attention
Beyond valence
Should the subjective be the objective? On studying mental processes, coping behavior, and actual exposures in organizational stress research
Factor analytic and item response theory evaluation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire in women with cancer
Worry and Permissive Parenting in Association with the Development of Internet Addiction in Children
Anxiety development trajectories in junior high students
Childhood Fears, Neurobehavioral Functioning and Behavior Problems in School-Age Children
Validation of the Japanese Version of the Body Vigilance Scale
Perception of Concern and Associated Factors During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The patient’s anxiety before seeing a doctor and her/his hospital choice behavior in China
The Nature of Worry(ing)
“If you keep talking, I’ll leave”
“Not be surprised by anything unusual”
Social Determinants of Message Exposure and Health Anxiety Among Young Sexual Minority Men in the United States During the 2022 Mpox Outbreak
Recurrent involuntary autobiographical memories
Developing representations of a ‘new’ illness using the Common Sense Model
The protective influence of trait mindfulness on psychological distress
The Reciprocity of Discrete Emotions and Health Information Seeking and Avoidance
Environmental Risk (and Benefit) Information Seeking Intentions
Culture and mood disorders
Sustaining evidence-based policing in an era of cuts
The Roles of Group Importance and Anxiety in Predicting Depersonalized Ingroup Trust
Chronic unease for safety in managers
Validating New Measures of the Fear of Crime
How Scientific Consensus Messaging Promotes Public Support for Socially Good AI
Producing Emotion(al) Messages
Future Money-Related Worries Among Adolescents After Divorce
Worry in Children
Subconscious Detection of Threat as Reflected by an Enhanced Response Bias
Emotional context influences access of visual stimuli to anxious individuals’ awareness
Hope
The Dialogical Brain
Communication apprehension as temperamental expression
Information Sufficiency and Risk Communication
Worry and Risk Perception
The impacts of negative problem orientation on perceived risk and travel intention in the context of Covid-19
The Role of Perseverative Cognition for Both Mental and Somatic Disorders in a Naturalistic Psychiatric Patient Sample
Extraversion, Threat Categorizations, and Negative Affect
Neuroticism as mental noise
Unstable in More Ways Than One
Why do close partners snoop? Predictors of intrusive behavior in newlywed couples
The experience of worry in parent–adult child relationships
Automatic processes and the appraisal of sexual stimuli
The psychological trade-offs of goal investment
Emotional Modulation of the Attentional Blink by Pleasant and Unpleasant Pictures
Virtual Reality as a Teaching Resource Which Reinforces Emotions in the Teaching Process
Feeding practices and concerns as mediators between maternal mental health and eating behaviours in early childhood
Different Trajectories, Stable Links
Anxiety and Attention
Delivering bad news fairly
Financially insecure and less ethical
Maternal intrusive support in the academic context
Approach, avoidance, and self-regulatory conflict
Electrocortical signs of arousal in response to darkness and the assessment of type A behavior in professional drivers with and without cardiovascular disease
The Influence of Time Orientation on Infection Risk Evaluation
Sharing the burden in a free riders’ land
Disgust, Anxiety, and Political Learning in the Face of Threat
Assessing the Effect of Media Tone on Attitudes Toward Muslims
A Multidimensional Structure for Repetitive Thought
Neuroticism as Mental Noise
Forgettings That Want to be Remembered
Slow escape decisions are swayed by trait anxiety
Self-reported interoception, worries and protective behaviors during the Covid-19 pandemic
Beyond violence
Choosing Between Two Evils
The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Semantic activation without conscious identification in dichotic listening, parafoveal vision, and visual masking
Recognizing
Cognitive and emotional components of anxiety
The relative efficacy of avoidant and nonavoidant coping strategies
Judgment of contingency in depressed and nondepressed students
Preliminary exploration of worry
Attentional bias in emotional disorders.
Towards a Cognitive Theory of Emotions
Selective Recall of Self-Descriptive Traits by Socially Anxious and Nonanxious Females
Attention and automaticity in the processing of self-relevant information
Emotion, personality, and selective attention
Mood and memory
Construct accessibility and depression
Affect, generalization, and the perception of risk
Effects of stress and anxiety on the processing of threat stimuli
Self-relevant scenarios as mediators of likelihood estimates and compliance
Monitoring and blunting
Availability
Colour naming of phobia-related words
Emotional processing of fear
Lexical ambiguity and its role in models of word recognition
| Unique citing works | 97 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,03 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 78 |