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Published in final edited form as: Clin Psychol Rev. 2012 Jul 4;32(6):575–603. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2012.06.004

Table 4.

Evidence for uncontrollable processing of emotion-relevant information.

Study Diagnosis Task Evidence for uncontrollable processing?
Agoraphobia

Fehm, 2003 SP TSP Yes
A Yes
Fehm & Margraf, 2002 SP TSP Yes
A Yes

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Reinecke, Becker, Hoyer, & Rinck, 2010 GAD IAT (single-target) Yes
Becker, Rinck, Roth, & Margraf, 1998 GAD TSP Yes
SP No
Mathews, Mogg, Kentish, & Eysenck, 1995 GAD VST No
Rinck, Becker, Kellermann, & Roth, 2003: Expt 1 GAD VST Yes
SP No
Rinck, Becker, Kellermann, & Roth, 2003: Expt 2 GAD VST Yes
see also 7 Supra-Stroop entries in unintentional table.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Bohne, Keuthen, Tuschen-Caffier, & Wilhelm, 2005 OCD DFT Yes
Tolin, Hamlin, & Foa, 2002 OCD DFT Mixed
SP No*
Wilhelm, McNally, Baer, & Florin, 1996 OCD DFT Yes
Janeck & Calamari, 1999 OCD TSP Yes
Najmi, Riemann, & Wegner, 2009 OCD TSP Yes
Purdon, Rowa, & Antony, 2005 OCD TSP No
see also 10 Supra-Stroop entries in unintentional table.
see also 2 NPT entries in unintentional table.

Panic Disorder

McNally, Otto, Yap, Pollack, & Hornig, 1999 PD DFT No
Teachman, Smith-Janik, & Saporito 2007 PD IAT Mixed
see also 13 Supra-Stroop entries in unintentional table.

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

McNally, Metzger, Lasko, Clancy, & Pitman, 1998 PTSD DFT Mixed
Zoellner, Sacks, & Foa, 2003 PTSD DFT No
Beck, Gudmundsdottir, Palyo, Miller, & Grant, 2006 PTSD TSP No
see also 8 Supra-Stroop entries in unintentional table.

Social Phobia

Gamer, Schmukle, Luka-Krausgrill, & Egloff, 2008 SP IAT Yes
Kingsep & Page, 2010 SP TSP No
Baños, Quero, & Botella, 2008 SP VST Yes
Gilboa-Schechtman, Foa, & Amir, 1999 SP VST Yes
Rinck & Becker, 2005 SP VST Yes
DEP Yes
see also (above):
Fehm, 2003
Fehm & Margraf, 2002
Becker, Rinck, Roth, & Margraf, 1998
Rinck, Becker, Kellermann, & Roth, 2003: Expt 1
see also 13 Supra-Stroop entries in unintentional table.

Specific Phobia

Huijding & de Jong, 2007 Ph (spider) IAT Yes
Teachman & Woody, 2003 Ph (spider) IAT Yes
Muris, Merckelbach, Horselenberg, Sijsenaar, & Leeuw, 1997 Ph (spider) TSP Yes
Zeitlin, Netten, & Hodder, 1995 Ph (spider) TSP Yes
Buodo, Sarlo, & Munafò, 2010 Ph (blood) VST No
Miltner, Krieschel, Hecht, Trippe, & Weiss, 2004: Expt 1 Ph (spider) VST Yes
Miltner, Krieschel, Hecht, Trippe, & Weiss, 2004: Expt 2 Ph (spider) VST Yes
see also 9 Supra-Stroop entries in unintentional table.
see also 1 NPT entry in unintentional table.

MDD

Power, Dalgleish, Claudio, Tata, & Kentish, 2000: Expt 3 DEP DFT Yes
De Raedt, Schacht, Franck, & De Houwer, 2006: Expt 3 DEP EAST No
De Raedt, Schacht, Franck, & De Houwer, 2006: Expt 1 DEP IAT No
Franck, De Raedt, Dereu, & Van den Abbeele, 2007 DEP IAT Mixed
Franck, De Raedt, & De Houwer, 2008 DEP IAT No
Glashouwer & De Jong, 2010 DEP (current and Remitted) IAT Yes
Price, Nock, Charney, & Mathew, 2009 DEP IAT No
Risch et al., 2010 DEP (first-onset) IAT Yes
DEP (recurrent) Yes
Joormann & Gotlib, 2008 DEP ST Yes
Joormann, Nee, Berman, Jonides, & Gotlib, 2010 DEP ST Yes
Joormann, Hertel, Brozovich, & Gotlib, 2005 DEP TNT No
Joormann, Hertel, LeMoult, & Gotlib, 2009 DEP TNT Mixed
Karparova, Kersting, & Suslow, 2005 DEP VST No
see also (above):
Rinck & Becker, 2005
see also 17 Supra-Stroop entries in unintentional table.
see also 6 NPT entries in unintentional table.

Note. A = Agoraphobia; DEP = Depression/Major Depressive Disorder; GAD = Generalized Anxiety Disorder; OCD = Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; PD = Panic Disorder; Ph (XX) = Specific Phobia (XX = feared stimuli); PTSD = Post-traumatic Stress Disorder; SP = Social Phobia; DFT = Directed Forgetting Task; EAST = Extrinsic Affective Simon Task; IAT = Implicit Association Test; ST = Sternberg Task (Ignore/Suppress Task); TNT = Think-No-Think Task; TSP = Thought Suppression Paradigm; VST = Visual Search Task

*

stimuli were not specific to row's disorder.