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 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 …

Objectives The present study explored the effects of two prebiotics on the secretion of the
stress hormone, cortisol and emotional processing in healthy volunteers. Methods Forty-five …

This meta-analysis of 172 studies (N= 2,263 anxious, N= 1,768 nonanxious) examined the
boundary conditions of threat-related attentional biases in anxiety. Overall, the results show …

This review considers evidence from cognitive experimental investigations of attentional
processing of emotional information. The review contrasts findings from the general …

Evidence of preattentive and attentional biases in anxiety is evaluated from a cognitive-
motivational perspective. According to this analysis, vulnerability to anxiety stems mainly …

In this paper, we examine whether affect influences higher level cognitive processes. We
review research on the effect of emotion on interpretation, judgement, decision making, and …

Biases in information processing undoubtedly play an important role in the maintenance of
emotion and emotional disorders. In an attentional cueing paradigm, threat words and angry …

Early adversity, for example poor caregiving, can have profound effects on emotional
development. Orphanage rearing, even in the best circumstances, lies outside of the bounds …

Contemporary researchers regard emotional states as multifaceted, comprising
physiological, behavioural, cognitive and subjective components. Subjective, conscious …