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Acutely induced anxiety increases negative interpretations of events in a closed-circuit television monitoring task (2012)
Journal Article
Cooper, R., Howard, C. J., Attwood, A. S., Stirland, R., Rostant, V., Renton, L., …Munafò, M. R. (2013). Acutely induced anxiety increases negative interpretations of events in a closed-circuit television monitoring task. Cognition and Emotion, 27(2), 273-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2012.704352

In two experiments we measured the effects of 7.5% CO₂ inhalation on the interpretation of video footage recorded on closed circuit television (CCTV). As predicted, inhalation of 7.5% CO₂ was associated with increases in physiological and subjective... Read More about Acutely induced anxiety increases negative interpretations of events in a closed-circuit television monitoring task.

Effects of 7.5% CO2 inhalation on allocation of spatial attention to facial cues of emotional expression (2011)
Journal Article
Cooper, R. M., Bailey, J. E., Diaper, A., Stirland, R., Renton, L. E., Benton, C. P., …Munafò, M. R. (2011). Effects of 7.5% CO2 inhalation on allocation of spatial attention to facial cues of emotional expression. Cognition and Emotion, 25(4), 626-638. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2010.508887

Increased vigilance to threat-related stimuli is thought to be a core cognitive feature of anxiety. We sought to investigate the cognitive impact of experimentally induced anxiety, by means of a 7.5% CO2 challenge, which acts as an unconditioned anxi... Read More about Effects of 7.5% CO2 inhalation on allocation of spatial attention to facial cues of emotional expression.

Effects of acute alcohol consumption on the perception of eye gaze direction (2010)
Journal Article
Penton-Voak, I. S., Cooper, R. M., Roberts, R. E., Attwood, A. S., & Munafò, M. R. (2012). Effects of acute alcohol consumption on the perception of eye gaze direction. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 26(2), 254-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881110385599

Alcohol consumption is associated with increases in aggressive behaviour, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship are poorly understood. One mechanism by which alcohol consumption may influence behaviour is via alterations in the processing o... Read More about Effects of acute alcohol consumption on the perception of eye gaze direction.

Depressive symptoms in early pregnancy disrupt attentional processing of infant emotion (2009)
Journal Article
Pearson, R. M., Cooper, R. M., Penton-Voak, I. S., Lightman, S. L., & Evans, J. (2010). Depressive symptoms in early pregnancy disrupt attentional processing of infant emotion. Psychological Medicine, 40(4), 621-631. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291709990961

BACKGROUND: Growing evidence suggests that perinatal depression is associated with disrupted mother-infant interactions and poor infant outcomes. Antenatal depression may play a key role in this cycle by disrupting the development of a maternal respo... Read More about Depressive symptoms in early pregnancy disrupt attentional processing of infant emotion.

No reliable effects of emotional facial expression, adult attachment orientation, or anxiety on the allocation of visual attention in the spatial cueing paradigm (2009)
Journal Article
Cooper, R. M., Rowe, A. C., Penton-Voak, I. S., & Ludwig, C. (2009). No reliable effects of emotional facial expression, adult attachment orientation, or anxiety on the allocation of visual attention in the spatial cueing paradigm. Journal of research in personality, 43(4), 643-652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2009.03.005

The primary goal of the current study was to examine the allocation of attention to emotional facial stimuli as a function of adult attachment orientation. Using a modified version of the spatial cueing paradigm we examined these effects in three e... Read More about No reliable effects of emotional facial expression, adult attachment orientation, or anxiety on the allocation of visual attention in the spatial cueing paradigm.

The role of trait anxiety in the recognition of emotional facial expressions (2007)
Journal Article
Cooper, R. M., Rowe, A. C., & Penton-Voak, I. S. (2008). The role of trait anxiety in the recognition of emotional facial expressions. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22(7), 1120-1127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2007.11.010

Previous work has suggested that elevated levels of trait anxiety are associated with an increased ability to accurately recognize the facial expression of fear. However, to date, recognition has only been assessed after viewing periods of 10s, despi... Read More about The role of trait anxiety in the recognition of emotional facial expressions.

The effect of emotional faces on eye movements and attention (2007)
Journal Article
Hunt, A. R., Cooper, R. M., Hungr, C., & Kingstone, A. (2007). The effect of emotional faces on eye movements and attention. Visual Cognition, 15(5), 513-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280600843346

The present study investigated the nature of attention to facial expressions using an oculomotor capture paradigm. Participants were required to make a speeded saccade toward a predefined target and ignore distractors. The valence (happy or angry) an... Read More about The effect of emotional faces on eye movements and attention.

Attentional bias to angry faces using the dot-probe task? it depends when you look for it. (2005)
Journal Article
Cooper, R. M., & Langton, S. R. (2006). Attentional bias to angry faces using the dot-probe task? it depends when you look for it. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44(9), 1321-1329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2005.10.004

A number of studies using the dot-probe task now report the existence of an attentional bias to angry faces in participants who rate highly on scales of anxiety; however, no equivalent bias has been observed in non-anxious populations, despite eviden... Read More about Attentional bias to angry faces using the dot-probe task? it depends when you look for it..