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 …

Attentional biases toward threats (ABTs) have been described in high anxious individuals
and in clinical samples whereas they have been rarely reported in non-clinical samples (,;) …

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 …

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 …

Theoretical frameworks of anxiety propose that attentional biases to threat-related stimuli
cause or maintain anxious states. The current paper draws on theoretical frameworks and …

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 …

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

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 …

Threat-related attentional biases represent a basic survival mechanism. These biases
include an engagement bias involving rapid direction of attention toward threat and a …

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