Negative stimuli often receive excessive attention and abnormal behavioral reaction from
human beings. Although threat-related attention bias is a normal phenomenon, it becomes …

Across clinical and subclinical samples, anxiety has been associated with increased
attentional capture by cues signaling danger. Various cognitive models attribute the onset …

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 …

Several researchers have proposed a causal relation between biased attention to threat and
the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders in both children and adults …

Attentional bias towards threat is implicated in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety
disorders. We examined the neural correlates of threat bias in anxious and nonanxious …

Context Cognitive theories of anxiety-and fear-related pathology suggest that individuals
with these forms of pathology (versus those without) exhibit greater threat-related attentional …

Anxiety is characterized by the anticipation of aversive future events. The importance of
prestimulus anticipatory factors, such as goals and expectations, is well-established in both …

Background Attention bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce attentional bias for threat (AB),
thereby diminishing anxiety symptoms. However, recent meta-analyses indicated mixed …

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

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 …