Anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders and are often chronic and
disabling. Although exposure-based treatments are effective, a substantial number of …

Context Cognitive theories of anxiety-and fear-related pathology suggest that individuals
with these forms of pathology (versus those without) exhibit greater threat-related attentional …

Anxiety disorders are common and difficult to treat. Some cognitive models of anxiety
propose that attention bias to threat causes and maintains anxiety. This view led to the …

A large body of research has demonstrated that affective disorders are characterized by
attentional biases for emotional stimuli. However, this research relies heavily on manual …

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

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 …

Two studies tested the hypothesis that Rejection Sensitivity (RS) increases vulnerability to
disruption of attention by social threat cues, as would be consistent with prior evidence that it …

Theoretical frameworks of anxiety propose that attentional biases to threat-related stimuli
cause or maintain anxious states. The current paper draws on theoretical frameworks and …

Depressed individuals display biased attention for emotional information when stimuli are
presented for relatively “long”(eg, 1s) durations. The current study examined whether …

Most theoretical models of anxiety disorders implicate maladaptive visuo-spatial attentional
processing of threat-relevant information in the onset and maintenance of symptoms. We …