ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book reviews a variety of different theories relating to attention and emotion. The aim of this section is to summarise the principal theoretical issues with which the theory is concerned, to acknowledge the debts to existing theory, and to identify the principal areas of difference between the theory and others. In subsequent sections, book consider future experimental work on the SREF model, the relationship between the SREF theory and psychobiological approaches to emotion, and the implications of the model for future clinically oriented research. The book that emphasis that cognitive constructs provides the most suitable level of description for explaining anxiety symptoms and processes. Psychobiological processes have contributed mainly in the form of non-specific arousal and its somatic manifestations. A potentially promising approach to generalised anxiety derives from animal models of central mechanisms in anxiety.
