People with emotional disorders, such as social anxiety disorder (SAD), generalized anxiety
disorder (GAD), and depression, demonstrate a consistent tendency, or bias, to generate …

Stress resilience is the phenomenon that some people maintain their mental health despite
exposure to adversity or show only temporary impairments followed by quick recovery …

Worry, a stream of negative thoughts about the future, is maintained by poor attentional
control, and the tendency to attend to negative information (attention bias) and interpret …

Abstract The Scrambled Sentences Task (SST) is frequently used to assess interpretation
biases (IBs). However, neither the range of its applications nor the quality of the empirical …

Editorial for the Special Issue on Cognitive Bias Modification Techniques: An Introduction to
a Time Traveller’s Tale | Cognitive Therapy and Research Skip to main content …

Neuroticism has been associated with depression and anxiety both cross-sectionally and
longitudinally. Interpretive bias has been associated with depression and anxiety, primarily …

Mental imagery has a powerful impact on emotion and cognitive processing in adults, and is
implicated in emotional disorders. Research suggests the perspective adopted in mental …

In the current study, we test for the specificity of deficits in fear acquisition and extinction for
the anxiety disorders spectrum. We compared fear acquisition and fear extinction learning …

Background Panic disorder is a debilitating anxiety disorder that has a serious impact on
adolescents' social and academic functioning and general wellbeing. Panic disorder is …

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a leading cause of global disease burden. Hence,
examining the role of risk and protective factors for MDD is an important target in …