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. 2025 Feb;29(2):118-121.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.11.001. Epub 2024 Nov 27.

Anxiety involves altered planning

Paul B Sharp  1
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Anxiety involves altered planning

Paul B Sharp. Trends Cogn Sci. 2025 Feb.

Abstract

Clinicians have suggested but not shown how anxiety involves altered planning. Here, I synthesize and extend computational models of planning in a framework that can be used to explain planning biases in anxiety. To spur its development, I spotlight two of its promising areas: task construal and meta-control.

Keywords: anxiety; planning; reinforcement learning.

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Declaration of interests The author declares no competing interests.