A review of current evidence for the causal impact of attentional bias on fear and anxiety.

B Van Bockstaele, B Verschuere, H Tibboel… - Psychological …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Prominent cognitive theories postulate that an attentional bias toward threatening
information contributes to the etiology, maintenance, or exacerbation of fear and anxiety. In …

[HTML][HTML] Gaining insight into adolescent vulnerability for social anxiety from developmental cognitive neuroscience

JD Caouette, AE Guyer - Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2014 - Elsevier
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) markedly impairs daily functioning. For adolescents, SAD can
constrain typical development precisely when social experiences broaden, peers' opinions …

Mental health on the go: Effects of a gamified attention-bias modification mobile application in trait-anxious adults

TA Dennis, LJ O'Toole - Clinical Psychological Science, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Interest in the use of mobile technology to deliver mental-health services has grown in light
of the economic and practical barriers to treatment. Yet research on alternative delivery …

Sensitivity to social and non‐social threats in temperamentally shy children at‐risk for anxiety

V LoBue, K Pérez‐Edgar - Developmental science, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Direct and indirect predictors of social anxiety: The role of anxiety sensitivity, behavioral inhibition, experiential avoidance and self-consciousness

G Panayiotou, M Karekla, M Panayiotou - Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2014 - Elsevier
Using mediated and moderated regression, this study examined the hypothesis that anxiety
sensitivity, the tendency to be concerned about anxiety symptoms, and behavioral inhibition …

Lasting associations between early-childhood temperament and late-adolescent reward-circuitry response to peer feedback

AE Guyer, B Benson, VR Choate… - Development and …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Behavioral inhibition, a temperament identifiable in infancy, is associated with heightened
withdrawal from social encounters. Prior studies raise particular interest in the striatum …

Preventive mental health at school

GL Macklem - New York, NY, 2014 - Springer
Comprehensive and Integrated School Psychologist Services in 2010. The 2010 model
includes recognition of the need for systems-level services for school-based mental health …

[HTML][HTML] Behavioral inhibition: Temperament or prodrome?

KE Pérez-Edgar, AE Guyer - Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 2014 - Springer
Individual differences in temperament emerge in the first months of life. Some infants display
a heightened sensitivity to novelty and uncertainty in the world around them, leading a …

Child temperament and parental depression predict cortisol reactivity to stress in middle childhood.

SVM Mackrell, HI Sheikh, Y Kotelnikova… - Journal of abnormal …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Children's cortisol reactivity to stress is an important mediator of depression risk, making the
search for predictors of such reactivity an important goal for psychopathologists. Multiple …

Associations between behavioral inhibition and children's social problem‐solving behavior during social exclusion

OL Walker, HA Henderson, KA Degnan… - Social …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The current study examined the associations between the early childhood temperament of
behavioral inhibition and children's displays of social problem‐solving (SPS) behavior …