Models of exposure therapy, one of the key components of cognitive behavioral therapy for
anxiety disorders, suggest that attention may play an important role in the extinction of fear …

Attention biases towards threatening and sad stimuli are associated with pediatric anxiety
and depression, respectively. The basic cognitive mechanisms associated with attention …

Attention bias modification (ABM) procedures typically reduce anxiety symptoms, yet little is
known about the neural changes associated with this behavioral treatment. Healthy adults …

Recent research has suggested that anxiety may be associated with processing biases that
favor the encoding of emotionally threatening information. However, the available data can …

The research literature suggests that children and adolescents suffering from anxiety
disorders experience cognitive distortions that magnify their perceived level of threat in the …

The aim of the present study was to question untested assumptions about the nature of the
expression of Attentional Bias (AB) towards and away from threat stimuli. We tested the idea …

Two experiments evaluated differential predictions from two cognitive formulations of
anxiety. According to one view, attentional biases for threat reflect vulnerability to anxiety; …

A substantive literature suggests that anxious people have an attentional bias toward
threatening stimuli. To date, however, no systematic review has examined the effects of …

Background: Threat‐related attention biases have been implicated in the etiology and
maintenance of anxiety disorders. As a result, attention bias modification (ABM) protocols …

Research suggests that individuals with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) show an
attention bias for threat-relevant information. However, few studies have examined the …