Dispositional negativity—the propensity to experience and express more frequent, intense,
or enduring negative affect—is a fundamental dimension of childhood temperament and …

There is growing interest regarding the impact of affect-biased attention on
psychopathology. However, most of the research to date lacks a developmental approach. In …

When extreme, anxiety can become debilitating. Anxiety disorders, which often first emerge
early in development, are common and challenging to treat, yet the neurocognitive …

Behavioral inhibition (BI) is a biologically-based temperament characterized by vigilance
toward threat. Over time, many children with BI increasingly fear social circumstances and …

The tendency to disproportionately allocate attention to threat stimuli, to evaluate ambiguous
or benign situations as overly threatening, and to exhibit overgeneralised and indiscriminate …

Extensive theoretical and empirical work has outlined the importance of temperament in
developmental psychopathology. This chapter focuses on recent advances in the …

Attention biases towards threatening and sad stimuli are associated with pediatric anxiety
and depression, respectively. The basic cognitive mechanisms associated with attention …

The present study examined the associations between temperamental exuberance during
toddlerhood (20 months), attention bias towards reward at the end of kindergarten (76 …

Early temperamental sensitivity may form the basis for the later development of
socioemotional maladjustment. In particular, temperamental negative affect places children …

Background Early life stress is associated with poorer social functioning. Attentional biases
in response to threat‐related cues, linked to both early experience and psychopathology …