Converging neuroscientific and psychological evidence points to several transdiagnostic
factors that cut across DSM-defined disorders, which both affect and are affected by …

An impairment of attentional control in the face of threat-related distracters is well
established for high-anxious individuals. Beyond that, it has been hypothesized that high …

Acutely challenging or threatening situations frequently require approach-avoidance
decisions. Acute threat triggers fast autonomic changes that prepare the body to freeze, fight …

Trait anxiety has long been associated with impaired selective attention to task-irrelevant
threat stimuli, both when threat is presented consciously and outside of awareness …

Attentional bias to threat cues is most adaptive when the dangers they signal can readily be
controlled by timely action. This study examined whether heightened trait anxiety is …

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 …

Two experiments evaluated differential predictions from two cognitive formulations of
anxiety. According to one view, attentional biases for threat reflect vulnerability to anxiety; …

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 …

A negative bias in the deployment of attention to emotional stimuli is commonly found in both
anxiety and depression. Recent work has highlighted that such biases are causally related …

Threat bias, or exaggerated selective attention to threat, is considered a key neurocognitive
factor in the etiology and maintenance of pediatric anxiety disorders. However, upon closer …