Cross-sectional evidence suggests that attention bias to threat is linked to anxiety disorders
and anxiety vulnerability in both children and adults. However, there is a lack of …

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 …

Background Considerable research links threat‐related attention biases to anxiety
symptoms in adults, whereas extant findings on threat biases in youth are limited and mixed …

The research literature suggests that children and adolescents suffering from anxiety
disorders experience cognitive distortions that magnify their perceived level of threat in the …

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

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 …

BackgroundPreliminary research implicates threat-related attention biases in paediatric
anxiety disorders. However, major questions exist concerning diagnostic specificity, effects …

Objective Attention biases for threat may reflect an early risk marker for anxiety disorders.
Yet questions remain regarding the direction and time-course of anxiety-linked biased …

Attention biases towards threatening and sad stimuli are associated with pediatric anxiety
and depression, respectively. The basic cognitive mechanisms associated with attention …

Although attention bias towards threat has been causally implicated in the development and
maintenance of fear and anxiety, the expected associations do not appear consistently …