Facts about Looming Cognitive Style
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Animal threat scenarios, such as an approaching predator, are commonly used in experimental studies to elicit looming cognitive style responses in laboratory settings.
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Research on looming cognitive style has found it predicts anxiety above and beyond trait anxiety alone, suggesting it captures a distinct cognitive vulnerability.
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Looming cognitive style is measured using self-report instruments that assess the degree to which individuals mentally simulate threats as dynamically moving closer or worsening over time.
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Psychologist Michael Riskind developed the looming cognitive style construct, linking dynamic mental representations of escalating danger to the maintenance of anxiety.
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The looming cognitive style describes a tendency to perceive threats as rapidly intensifying and approaching, and is strongly associated with anxiety disorders.