Anxiety disorders are common and difficult to treat. Some cognitive models of anxiety
propose that attention bias to threat causes and maintains anxiety. This view led to the …

A wealth of research demonstrates attentional biases toward threat in the anxiety disorders.
Several models have been advanced to explain these biases in anxiety, yet the mechanisms …

Objectives The present study explored the effects of two prebiotics on the secretion of the
stress hormone, cortisol and emotional processing in healthy volunteers. Methods Forty-five …

This meta-analysis of 172 studies (N= 2,263 anxious, N= 1,768 nonanxious) examined the
boundary conditions of threat-related attentional biases in anxiety. Overall, the results show …

What has emotion got to do with attention? Why does the interface between these two
warrant additional empirical and theoretical consideration? The answer lies in the many …

Higher level cognitive processes are characteristically human. Until recently, these
processes were studied in a vacuum, separately from theaffective system, as if they were …

Evidence of preattentive and attentional biases in anxiety is evaluated from a cognitive-
motivational perspective. According to this analysis, vulnerability to anxiety stems mainly …

Early adversity, for example poor caregiving, can have profound effects on emotional
development. Orphanage rearing, even in the best circumstances, lies outside of the bounds …

Biases in information processing undoubtedly play an important role in the maintenance of
emotion and emotional disorders. In an attentional cueing paradigm, threat words and angry …

The present paper reports three new experiments suggesting that the valence of a face cue
can influence attentional effects in a cueing paradigm. Moreover, heightened trait anxiety …