The purpose of this chapter is to examine contemporary psychophysiological accounts of
interactions between attention and affect as manifested by research on orienting and …

Integrative hierarchical models have sought to account for the extensive comorbidity
between various internalizing disorders in terms of broad individual difference factors these …

We examined the hypothesis that rejection automatically elicits defensive physiological
reactions in people with low self-esteem (SE) but that attentional control moderates this …

The authors examined the time course of affective responding associated with different
affective dimensions--anxious apprehension, anxious arousal, and anhedonic depression …

This study examined the association of two widely used measures of attention allocation
toward or away from threat-related stimuli: The emotional Stroop task and the attentional …

This analysis postulates a motivational continuity from reflex reactions to complex,
cognitively elaborated emotional expressions. Responses are motivated by either the …

This chapter considers the concept of negative affect as it can be measured physiologically,
and can serve as a unifying dimension across the anxiety disorder spectrum. It begins with …

The effects of stimulus intensity, duration, and risetime on the autonomic and behavioral
components of orienting, startle, and defense responses were investigated. Six groups of 10 …

Rationale Preclinical data indicates that threat stimuli elicit two classes of defensive
behaviors, those that are associated with imminent danger and are characterized by flight or …

Attentional biases toward mood-congruent, task-irrelevant stimuli have previously been
demonstrated in anxious and depressed subjects using the emotional Stroop procedure. We …