Attention bias modification (ABM) was developed to alleviate anxious symptoms by way of a
reduction in anxiety-linked attentional bias to threat. Central to the rational of ABM is a …

Background: Individuals with heightened anxiety vulnerability tend to preferentially attend to
emotionally negative information, with evidence suggesting that this attentional bias makes …

Background Cognitive bias theories propose that reducing threat hypervigilance in mental
disorders can augment cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) outcomes. However, no studies …

Background and objectives An attention bias toward hostile stimuli is associated with an
increased risk of aggressive behavior. Thus, reducing hostile attention bias may help to …

The error-related negativity (ERN) is an electrophysiological response to errors. Individual
differences in the ERN have been posited to reflect sensitivity to threat and linked with risk …

Background Attention bias to threat (selective attention toward threatening stimuli) has been
frequently found in anxiety disorder samples, but its distribution both within and beyond this …

Examination stress occurs so frequently in the lives of students. The neural mechanisms of
attentional bias induced by examination stress in test‐anxious individuals remain unclear …

Evidence supports a causal role of insomnia in the development and maintenance of
depression, yet mechanisms underlying this association in young people are not well …

Background: Individual face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy is known to be effective for
bulimia nervosa (BN). Since foods vary considerably between regions and cultures in which …

Previous evidence suggested that spontaneous eye blinking changes as a function of the
attentional focus. In particular, eye blink rate (EBR) tends to increase when attention is …