Cognitive deficits are now widely recognized to be an important component of anxiety. In
particular, anxiety is thought to restrict the capacity of working memory by competing with …

Executive function (EF) is essential for successfully navigating nearly all of our daily
activities. Of critical importance for clinical psychological science, EF impairments are …

Virtually every question in social psychology is currently being shaped by the concepts and
methods of implicit social cognition. This tightly edited volume provides the first …

Behavioral inhibition (BI), a temperament identified in early childhood, is associated with
social reticence in childhood and an increased risk for anxiety problems in adolescence and …

The authors examined the association of anxiety, depressive symptoms, and their co-
occurrence on cognitive processes in 102 community-dwelling older adults. Participants …

ObjectiveThe cognitive model (Hirsch & Mathews, 2012) and attentional control theory
(Eysenck & Derakshan, 2011) postulate that compromised executive function (EF) and other …

This study assessed the degree to which anxiety and depression symptoms are associated
with memory and executive functioning among community-dwelling older adults (N= 120; M …

Cognitive models of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) propose that cognitive control,
broadly construed, and inhibition specifically, play a role in the maintenance of GAD …

Background and objectives Social anxiety is characterized by biased attentional processing
of social information. However, heterogeneity of extant findings suggests that it may be …

Anxiety disorders are frequently encountered in the elderly, but they are largely undetected
and untreated. Epidemiological studies indicate a prevalence ranging from 1.2 to 15%. With …