Despite the established evidence for threat-related attention bias in anxiety, the mechanisms
underlying this bias remain unclear. One important unresolved question is whether disorder …

A wealth of research demonstrates attentional biases toward threat in the anxiety disorders.
Several models have been advanced to explain these biases in anxiety, yet the mechanisms …

Considerable effort and funding have been spent on developing Attention Bias Modification
(ABM) as a treatment for anxiety disorders, theorized to exert therapeutic effects through …

This meta-analysis of 172 studies (N= 2,263 anxious, N= 1,768 nonanxious) examined the
boundary conditions of threat-related attentional biases in anxiety. Overall, the results show …

Context Cognitive theories of anxiety-and fear-related pathology suggest that individuals
with these forms of pathology (versus those without) exhibit greater threat-related attentional …

Highlights•Anxious individuals and those at risk show attention biases to irrelevant
threats.•These attention biases are related to imbalanced prefrontal-limbic-sensory …

Anxiety-related attention bias (AB) has been studied for several decades as a clinically
relevant output of the dynamic and complex threat-detection and-response system. Despite …

Across clinical and subclinical samples, anxiety has been associated with increased
attentional capture by cues signaling danger. Various cognitive models attribute the onset …

Attentional biases to threat are thought to play a central role in the development and
maintenance of anxiety disorders. Various measures have been developed to index these …

Both attention bias to threat and negative interpretive bias have been implicated in the
emergence and maintenance of anxiety disorders. However, relations between attention …