The allocation of attention is affected by internal emotional states, such as anxiety and depression.The attention captured by real images of negative faces can be quantified by emotional probe tasks.The present study investigated whether attentional bias toward drawings of negative faces (line drawings and cartoon faces) differs from that of real faces.Non-clinical university students indicated their levels of anxiety and depression via self-report questionnaires, and completed a probe discrimination task AEG CCB6761ACB 60 cm Electric Ceramic Cooker - Black under three face image conditions in a between-participants design.Significant correlations were found between bias scores and scores on the self-reported BDI-II under the De-Burring Tool real face condition.
However, two types of face drawings were only weakly correlated with self-report scores.In our probe task to investigate attentional bias to facial stimuli in nonclinical adults, the strength of the relationship between depression and attentional bias to negative face was stronger for real faces than for face drawings.