The dot-probe task is often considered a gold standard in the field for investigating
attentional bias to threat. However, serious issues with the task have been raised …

To examine the causal relationship between cognitive biases and anxiety, a bias
modification paradigm was used to reduce negative interpretation biases in participants with …

Healthy individuals often exhibit prioritized processing of aversive information, as
manifested in enhanced orientation of attention to threatening stimuli compared with neutral …

It is well established that anxious individuals show biases in information processing, such
that they attend preferentially to threatening stimuli and interpret emotional ambiguity in a …

Virtually all researchers now would agree that anxiety vulnerability is characterized by
distinctive patterns of attentional and interpretive bias, and few would dispute the pivotal role …

Background: Neural activity is increasingly used in addition to behavioral measures to study
anxiety and attentional biases toward threatening stimuli. Event‐related potentials (ERPs) …

Prominent cognitive theories postulate that an attentional bias toward threatening
information contributes to the etiology, maintenance, or exacerbation of fear and anxiety. In …

Attentional threat bias (ATB) has been suggested as one factor leading to maintenance and
exacerbation of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). In the present study, attentional …

Attention bias modification (ABM) is a newly emerging therapy for anxiety disorders that is
rooted in current cognitive models of anxiety and in established experimental data on threat …

Attentional bias to threatening visual stimuli (words or pictures) is commonly present in
anxious individuals, but not in non-anxious people. There is evidence to show that …