Highlights•Neural degradation and cognitive impairment cannot account for the positivity
effect.•Cognitive load reduces the positivity effect.•Constraints on time horizons produce the …

Emotional valence is predominately conveyed in social interactions by words and facial
expressions. The existence of broad biases which favor more efficient processing of positive …

Disputes between those holding differing political views are ubiquitous and deep-seated,
and they often follow common, recognizable lines. The supporters of tradition and stability …

Interest in sex-related differences in psychological functioning has again come to the
foreground with new findings about their possible functional basis in the brain. Sex …

Although it is well known that anxious adults show selective attention to threatening stimuli,
research investigating attentional bias in children with anxiety has produced mixed results …

Although children's security in the context of the interparental relationship has been
identified as a key explanatory mechanism in pathways between family discord and child …

The ability to quickly detect potential threat is an important survival mechanism for humans
and other animals. Past research has established that adults have an attentional bias for the …

Generic statements (eg,“Birds lay eggs”) express generalizations about categories. In this
paper, we hypothesized that there is a paradoxical asymmetry at the core of generic …

There is growing interest regarding the impact of affect-biased attention on
psychopathology. However, most of the research to date lacks a developmental approach. In …

Clinical and experimental theories assume that processing biases in attention and
interpretation are a causal mechanism through which anxiety develops. Despite growing …