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 …

A variety of methodological paradigms, including dot probe and eye movement tasks, have
been used to examine attentional biases to threat in anxiety disorders. Unfortunately, little …

The extant laboratory research on anxiety-related attentional bias in response to external
threat cues is discussed. Studies utilizing dichotic listening tasks, modified Stroop color …

Attentional bias towards threat reliably correlates with clinical anxiety status as well as
elevated trait anxiety. Although such findings have led many to posit a potential causative or …

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 …

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 …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Previous research suggests that attention bias toward
threat contributes to the development and maintenance of anxiety. The current study extends …

There is substantial evidence that heightened anxiety vulnerability is characterized by
increased selective attention to threatening information. The reliability of this anxiety-linked …

Background Pretreatment biases in attending toward threat have been shown to predict
greater symptom reduction following cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety …

According to cognitive models of anxiety disorders, attentional bias for threatening
information is a vulnerability factor to the etiology and maintenance of anxiety. A recently …