This brief reflection considers some of the important developments in anxiety-linked
attentional bias research that have marked the three decades since the launch of Cognition …

In this review of research concerning anxiety-linked attentional bias, we seek to illustrate a
general principle that we contend applies across the breadth of experimental …

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 …

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 …

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

Cognitive models of anxiety posit that an attentional bias to negative information plays a
causal role in elevated anxiety vulnerability and dysfunction. There has been considerable …

Recently, researchers have investigated the causal nature of attentional bias for threat (AB)
in the maintenance of anxiety disorders by experimentally manipulating it. They found that …

Previous research has demonstrated that anxious individuals attend to negative emotional
information at the expense of other information. This is commonly referred to as attentional …

A considerable volume of research has demonstrated an anxiety-linked attentional bias
characterized by selective processing of threat stimuli. The last decade has seen growing …

Cognitive models of anxiety propose that selective attention to negative information plays a
causal role in heightened anxiety vulnerability and dysfunction. However, there has been …