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 …

Context Cognitive theories of anxiety-and fear-related pathology suggest that individuals
with these forms of pathology (versus those without) exhibit greater threat-related attentional …

The use of unreliable measures constitutes a threat to our understanding of
psychopathology, because advancement of science using both behavioral and biologically …

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

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 …

Objective: Alcohol-dependent patients show attentional and approach biases for alcohol-
related stimuli. Computerized cognitive bias modification (CBM) programs aim to retrain …

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 …

Background Deficits in attentional control have been hypothesized to cause rumination,
suggesting that the relationships between attentional control and clinical symptoms may be …

Psychological science has long been cleaved by a fundamental divide between researchers
who experimentally manipulate variables and those who measure existing individual …

In a dot-probe task, two cues—one emotional and one neutral—are followed by a probe in
one of their locations. Faster responses to probes co-located with the emotional stimulus are …