Irrelevant emotional distractor faces and attentional capture by individuals with cognitive vulnerability to depression

This study investigated attentional capture by individuals with cognitive vulnerability to depression (CVD), by using irrelevant emotional distractor faces. The hypothesis was that, during face-orientation decision tasks, both happy and sad task-irrelevant emotional faces are more attractive to individuals with CVD than to controls. To test this, both a group of subjects with CVD (n = 45) and a control group without such vulnerability (n = 51)...