Anxiety disorders constitute a sizeable worldwide health burden with profound social and
economic consequences. The symptoms are wide-ranging; from hyperarousal to difficulties …

Although it is well known that anxious adults show selective attention to threatening stimuli,
research investigating attentional bias in children with anxiety has produced mixed results …

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comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Biases of emotional attention are believed to be central to human (mal) adaptation and
multiple forms of psychopathology. Yet fundamental questions remain regarding the nature …

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

Among anxious populations, attention has been demonstrated to be preferentially biased to
threatening material compared to neutral or other valenced material. Individuals who have …

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 …

Healthy individuals often exhibit prioritized processing of aversive information, as
manifested in enhanced orientation of attention to threatening stimuli compared with neutral …

Background In recent years, a growing body of eye-tracking research has investigated gaze
behavior in individuals with social anxiety during the visual perception of emotional stimuli …

These findings have implications for understanding and assessing affective biases in
perception and attention in patients with psychiatric disorders, such as phobias, depression …