Prominent cognitive theories postulate that an attentional bias toward threatening
information contributes to the etiology, maintenance, or exacerbation of fear and anxiety. In …

Current knowledge on the architecture of exogenous attention (also called automatic, bottom-
up, or stimulus-driven attention, among other terms) has been mainly obtained from studies …

Theoretical frameworks of anxiety propose that attentional biases to threat-related stimuli
cause or maintain anxious states. The current paper draws on theoretical frameworks and …

Background and objectives An attentional bias for negative information plays an important
role in the development and maintenance of (social) anxiety and depression, which are …

Previous research has documented a propensity for rapid detection of various threats like
snakes and spiders in human adults, children, and even infants. The current research …

In the current brief report, we examined threat perception in a group of young children who
may be at‐risk for anxiety due to extreme temperamental shyness. Results demonstrate …

HIV-1 was recognized as the cause of AIDS in humans in 1984. Despite 30 years of
intensive research, we are still unraveling the molecular details of the host-pathogen …

For more than two decades, visual search experiments using pictures of emotional faces as
stimuli have generated contradictory results. Evidence of a superior detection of angry faces …

Background and aim Social factors may be of importance causally and act as maintenance
factors in patients with anorexia nervosa. Oxytocin is a neuromodulatory hormone involved …

Countless studies have reported that adults detect a variety of threatening stimuli more
quickly than positive or neutral stimuli. Despite speculation about what factors drive this bias …