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 …

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

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 …

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

Although research has consistently revealed the presence of a general attentional bias
towards threat, empirical and theoretical ambiguity exists in determining whether attentional …

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 …

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 …

Beginning in the 1980s, experimental psychopathologists increasingly adapted the concepts
and paradigms of cognitive science to elucidate information-processing abnormalities that …

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 …

This meta-analysis of 172 studies (N= 2,263 anxious, N= 1,768 nonanxious) examined the
boundary conditions of threat-related attentional biases in anxiety. Overall, the results show …