There is substantial evidence that heightened anxiety vulnerability is characterized by
increased selective attention to threatening information. The reliability of this anxiety-linked …

Stress encompasses profound psychological and physiological changes that are observable
on all levels, from cellular mechanisms, humoral changes, and brain activation to subjective …

Cognitive models posit that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with and maintained
by biased attention allocation vis-à-vis social threat. However, over the last decade, there …

Threat-anticipatory defensive responses have evolved to promote survival in a dynamic
world. While inherently adaptive, aberrant expression of defensive responses to potential …

Background A unique feature of the global coronavirus pandemic has been the widespread
adoption of mask-wearing as a public health measure to minimize the risk of contagion. Little …

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 …

Considerable effort and funding have been spent on developing Attention Bias Modification
(ABM) as a treatment for anxiety disorders, theorized to exert therapeutic effects through …

Background In recent years, a growing body of eye-tracking research has investigated gaze
behavior in individuals with social anxiety during the visual perception of emotional stimuli …

Cognitive models posit that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with and maintained
by attentional bias (AB) for social threat. However, over the last years, it has been suggested …

Judgments about the self compared to internalized standards are central to theoretical
frameworks of social anxiety. Yet, empirical research on social comparisons—how people …