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

There is substantial evidence that heightened anxiety vulnerability is characterized by
increased selective attention to threatening information. The reliability of this anxiety-linked …

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 …

The dot probe task is a widely used measure of attention allocation to threatening stimuli.
The present two studies examine the reliability of different versions of this task using words …

Although research has consistently revealed the presence of a general attentional bias
towards threat, empirical and theoretical ambiguity exists in determining whether attentional …

Accumulated evidence from social and cognitive psychology suggests that many behaviors
are driven by processes operating outside of awareness, and an array of implicit measures …

With salivary assessment of steroid hormones increasing, more work is needed to address
fundamental properties of steroid hormone levels in humans. Using a test–retest design and …

Solving algebraic word problems involves multiple cognitive phases. The authors used a
multitask approach to examine the extent to which working memory and executive …

Previous studies have examined the reliability of scores derived from various Stroop tasks.
However, few studies have compared reliability of more recently developed Stroop variants …

BackgroundCognitive models of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) implicate threat-
related attentional biases in the etiology and phenomenology of the disorder. However …