Behavioral Inhibition is a temperament identified in the first years of life that enhances the
risk for development of anxiety during late childhood and adolescence. Amongst children …

Behavioral inhibition (BI) is a temperament characterized in early childhood by distress to
novelty and avoidance of unfamiliar people, and it is one of the best-known risk factors for …

Mobile device use has become increasingly prevalent, yet its impact on infant development
remains largely unknown. When parents use mobile devices in front of infants, the parent is …

An ongoing debate in affective science concerns whether certain discrete,“basic” emotions
have evolutionarily based signals (facial expressions) that are easily, universally, and …

Infants have a strong tendency to look at faces. We examined individual variations in this
attentional bias in 7‐month‐old infants by using a face‐distractor competition paradigm and …

The early development of threat perception in infancy might be dependent on caregiver
context, but this link has not yet been studied in human infants. This study examined the …

Across clinical and subclinical samples, anxiety has been associated with increased
attentional capture by cues signaling danger. Various cognitive models attribute the onset …

Understanding how we come to make sense of our environments requires understanding
both how we take in new information and how we flexibly process and store that information …

Cross-sectional evidence suggests that attention bias to threat is linked to anxiety disorders
and anxiety vulnerability in both children and adults. However, there is a lack of …

The intergenerational transmission of psychopathology is one of the strongest known risk
factors for childhood disorder and may be a malleable target for prevention and intervention …