In three studies, we examine the apparent loomingness, or rapid forward motion, that
anxious individuals may perceive in danger. Results of the current studies show that …

The looming vulnerability model of fear predicts that high fearful individuals, as compared to
low fearful individuals, will display a heightened tendency to perceive feared stimuli as …

The current study examined the relation between the perception that fear-stimuli are looming
and fearful cognitive distortions. As hypothesized, high-fear-of-spider Ss were significantly …

The model of looming vulnerability identifies a cognitive vulnerability factor for anxiety
disorders. The looming cognitive style is hypothesized as an overarching cognitive …

This experiment investigated a model of fear that combines elements of two models that
have received empirical support. The harm-looming model is concerned primarily with …

The concept that perceived threat or danger is a cognitive antecedent of anxiety is central in
clinical psychology, personality psychology, and social psychology. The aim in the current …

Increased attention to threat is considered a core feature of anxiety. However, there are
multiple mechanisms of attention and multiple types of threat, and the relationships among …

Previous efforts to identify risk factors for anxiety have focused on individual differences in
the prediction and experience of threatening events. More recently, the looming vulnerability …

The present study examined the hypothesis, stimulated by the looming vulnerability model of
anxiety (Riskind, 1997), that the mental activity of catastrophizing is related to both the …

The purpose of this study was to examine whether anxiety-related cognitive bias for threat is
stronger for threatening pictures than for threatening words. Spider-phobic participants (n …