Despite a longstanding and widespread influence of the diagnostic approach to mental ill
health, there is an emerging and growing consensus that such psychiatric nosologies may …

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of powerful new tools for assaying the brain
and a remarkable acceleration of research focused on the interplay of emotion and …

Anxiety disorders are common and difficult to treat. Some cognitive models of anxiety
propose that attention bias to threat causes and maintains anxiety. This view led to the …

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

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 125 (7) of Journal
of Abnormal Psychology (see record 2016-41990-001). There was an error in the Author …

Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …

Research on attention bias modification (ABM) for social anxiety disorder (SAD) is
inconclusive, with some studies finding clear positive effects and other studies finding no …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Attention bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce anxiety by reducing attention bias (AB) to
threat; however, effects on anxiety and AB are variable. This review examines 34 studies …

Research in experimental psychopathology and cognitive theories of anxiety highlight threat-
related attention biases (ABs) and underpin the development of a computer-delivered …