Subliminal affective priming in clinical depression and comorbid anxiety: A longitudinal investigation

• Published in: Psychiatry research Vol. 143; no. 1; pp. 63 - 75
• Main Authors: Dannlowski, Udo, Kersting, Anette, Lalee-Mentzel, Judith, Donges, Uta-Susan, Arolt, Volker, Suslow, Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shannon Elsevier Ireland Ltd 30.06.2006; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Affect; Affective disorders; Anxiety Disorders - diagnosis; Anxiety Disorders - epidemiology; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition; Cognition Disorders - diagnosis; Cognition Disorders - epidemiology; Cognitive bias; Comorbidity; Depression; Depressive Disorder, Major - diagnosis; Depressive Disorder, Major - epidemiology; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Emotion; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Mood disorders; Neuropsychological Tests; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Severity of Illness Index; Signal Detection, Psychological; Stroop; Sublimation, Psychological; Time Factors; Vocabulary; Cognition; Emotion; Affective disorders; Comorbidity; Stroop; Cognitive bias; Mood disorder; Affect affectivity; Priming effect; Depression; Emotion emotionality; Affective disorder; Concomitant disease; Subliminal stimulus; Stroop effect; Follow up study; Subliminal perception; Anxiety

In the present study, the sequential affective priming paradigm developed by Fazio et al. [Fazio, R.H., Sanbonmatsu, D.M., Powell, M.C., Kardes, F.R., 1986. On the automatic activation of attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 50, 229–238.] was applied for the first time to investig...