Anxiety is conceptualized as a state of negative emotional arousal that is accompanied by
concern about future threat. The purpose of this meta-analytic review was to evaluate the …

Background Anxiety and depression occurring during childhood and adolescence are
common and costly. While early‐emerging anxiety and depression can arise through a …

For social animals, attending to and recognizing the emotional expressions of other
individuals is of crucial importance for their survival and likely has a deep evolutionary …

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 …

Theoretical frameworks highlight the importance of threat-related information-processing
biases for understanding the emergence of anxiety in childhood. The psychometric …

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 …

Although cognitive theories of psychopathology suggest that attention bias toward threat
plays a role in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety, there is relatively little evidence …

Background Despite recent data implicating functional abnormalities in the neurocircuitry
underlying emotional processing in pediatric anxiety disorders, little is known regarding …

Affect-biased attention is an automatic process that prioritizes emotionally or motivationally
salient stimuli. Several models of affect-biased attention and its development suggest that it …

Biased attention to emotional stimuli plays a key role in the RDoC constructs of Sustained
Threat and Loss. In this article, we review approaches to assessing these biases, their links …