Although research has consistently revealed the presence of a general attentional bias
towards threat, empirical and theoretical ambiguity exists in determining whether attentional …

Consistent research evidence supports the existence of threat-relevant cognitive bias in
anxiety, but there remains controversy about which stages of information processing are …

The dot-probe task developed by Macleod, Mathews and Tata (1986) is a measure of
attentional bias. Recent developments of the task have favoured the use of human faces as …

Attentional biases to trauma-related stimuli have been widely demonstrated in individuals
with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, the majority of these studies used …

The hypervigilance-avoidance hypothesis assumes that anxious individuals initially attend
to and subsequently avoid threatening stimuli. In this study pairs of emotional (angry or …

Threatening facial expressions can signal the approach of someone or something
potentially dangerous. Past research has established that adults have an attentional bias for …

We investigated the source of the visual search advantage of some emotional facial
expressions. An emotional face target (happy, surprised, disgusted, fearful, angry, or sad) …

Individuals with social phobia fear negative evaluation, which is most directly signalled by
an angry expression of the interlocutor's face. This study investigated the processing of 3 …

We examined the contribution of social rank and attachment to social anxiety (SA) and
depression. Specifically, we explored meditational models in which social rank and …

Background: We examined social approachability judgments in a psychiatric population that
frequently experiences interpersonal difficulties and reduced social satisfaction, individuals …