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

Cognitive biases have been theorized to play a critical role in the onset and maintenance of
anxiety and depression. Cognitive bias modification (CBM), an experimental paradigm that …

The use of unreliable measures constitutes a threat to our understanding of
psychopathology, because advancement of science using both behavioral and biologically …

BACKGROUND:: Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) is a newly emerging,
promising treatment for anxiety disorders. Although recent randomized control trials (RCTs) …

Clinical anxiety disorders and elevated levels of anxiety vulnerability are characterized by
cognitive biases, and this processing selectivity has been implicated in theoretical accounts …

We present an evidence-based model of pathological worry in which worry arises from an
interaction between involuntary (bottom-up) processes, such as habitual biases in attention …

Anxiety vulnerability and dysfunction are characterized by an attentional bias to threat.
Cognitive training procedures designed to modify selective attentional responding to threat …

Research in experimental psychopathology and cognitive theories of anxiety highlight threat-
related attention biases (ABs) and underpin the development of a computer-delivered …

Research conducted within the general paradigm of cognitive bias modification (CBM)
reveals that emotional biases in attention, interpretation, and memory are not merely …

Attention bias modification (ABM) protocols aim to modify attentional biases underlying
many forms of pathology. Our objective was to conduct an effect size analysis of ABM across …