Social anxiety disorder or social phobia is a condition characterized by debilitating fear and
avoidance of different social situations. We provide an overview of social anxiety and …

BackgroundCognitive bias modification (CBM) interventions are strongly advocated in
research and clinical practice. AimsTo examine the efficiency of CBM for clinically relevant …

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

Background Within maintenance models of social anxiety disorder (SAD), a number of
cognitive and behavioural factors that drive the persistence of SAD have been proposed …

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 …

Cognitive biases have been theorized to play a critical role in the onset and maintenance of
anxiety and depression. Cognitive bias modification (CBM), an experimental paradigm that …

The use of unreliable measures constitutes a threat to our understanding of
psychopathology, because advancement of science using both behavioral and biologically …

BACKGROUND:: Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) is a newly emerging,
promising treatment for anxiety disorders. Although recent randomized control trials (RCTs) …

The dot-probe task has been widely used in research to produce an index of biased
attention based on reaction times (RTs). Despite its popularity, very few published studies …

Beginning in the 1980s, experimental psychopathologists increasingly adapted the concepts
and paradigms of cognitive science to elucidate information-processing abnormalities that …