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

A variety of methodological paradigms, including dot probe and eye movement tasks, have
been used to examine attentional biases to threat in anxiety disorders. Unfortunately, little …

Cognitive models posit that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with and maintained
by biased attention allocation vis-à-vis social threat. However, over the last decade, there …

Attentional bias toward negative social cues is thought to serve an etiological and/or
maintaining role in social anxiety disorder (SAD). The current study tested whether training …

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

Biases in attention processes are thought to play a crucial role in the aetiology and
maintenance of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). The goal of the present study was to …

Despite the frequent comorbidity of social anxiety disorder and alcohol use disorders, no
theoretical model currently exists to explain the specific mechanisms underlying the …

In contrast to the well-established effects of stress on learning of declarative material, much
less is known about stress effects on reward-or feedback-based learning. Differential effects …

Stress pervades everyday life and impedes risky decision making. The following experiment
is the first to examine effects of stress on risky decision making in the Iowa Gambling Task …

Cognitive biases play an important role in the onset and maintenance of Social Anxiety
Disorder (SAD). Few studies, however, have examined the role of comorbid Major …