Background Despite being the treatment of choice for phobic disorders, in vivo exposure
treatment (IVET) presents some important limitations related mainly to low acceptance and …

When responding to stimuli, response and stimulus' features are thought to be integrated
into a short episodic memory trace, an event file. Repeating any of its components causes …

Spiders are among the animals evoking the highest fear and disgust and such a complex
response might have been formed throughout human evolution. Ironically, most spiders do …

Suicide-relevant attentional biases are found in suicide attempters (SAs) with depression.
Wenzel and Beck provide a theoretical framework that suggests suicide-related attention …

Previous studies have revealed that attentional bias toward aversive stimuli may play a
causal role in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders. This pilot study …

Anxiety, one of the most common mental illnesses among American adults, is often
assessed via self-reported measures. While self-reported measures provide an efficient step …

According to the multimedia principle, adding relevant pictures to text is beneficial for
learning. This beneficial effect is particularly true for text depicted in pictures (illustrated text …

Background: Despite being the treatment of choice for phobic disorders, in vivo exposure
treatment (IVET) presents some important limitations related mainly to low acceptance and …

Cognitive models of anxiety vulnerability and psychopathology have proposed that
individual differences in anxiety are characterised by biases in attentional responding to …

Inspired by overtly negative coverage by the Western mainstream press of Muslims in
particular, and minorities in general, this book asks: Why are negative narratives and …