ANXIETY AND AFFECTIVE CONTEXT MODULATE AWARENESS

Threat awareness is central to anxiety phenomenology. Previous studies have investigated anxious observers' ability to discriminate between different emotions using liminal or subliminal stimuli. Here, we asked whether a stimulus is more likely to access conscious perception in anxious individuals when it is threatening relative to when it is not. Crucially, null null null null null null null null null null null the stimuli emotional contents...