Among anxious populations, attention has been demonstrated to be preferentially biased to
threatening material compared to neutral or other valenced material. Individuals who have …

Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterised by persistent and uncontrollable worry.
According to the cognitive avoidance theory of GAD, worry may function as an affective …

Background and objectives Worry is predominantly a verbal-linguistic process with relatively
little imagery. This study investigated whether the verbal nature of worry contributes to the …

This study investigated the effect on worry of biased attentional engagement and
disengagement. Variants of a novel attention modification paradigm were developed …

Although worry is central to the diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), it is also
commonly observed in other anxiety disorders. In this meta-analytic review, we empirically …

Cognitive views on anxiety have proposed that attentional biases towards threatening
information in high trait anxious individuals play an important role in the maintenance of …

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 …

This article presents cognitive models of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and a critical
review of the empiric literature in which GAD has been associated with affect-related …

Recent work suggests that the ability to disengage attention from threatening information is
impaired in people who suffer from anxiety and dysphoria. It has been suggested that this …

The tendency to fear and avoid internal experiences may be an important characteristic of
individuals with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). We review here theory and research …