Abstract Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is an affective disorder with sustained negative
affect and difficulties experiencing positive affect as its hallmark features. Previous work also …

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

Sustained negative affect and difficulties experiencing positive affect are hallmark features of
major depressive disorder. Recent research has suggested that difficulties in emotion …

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 …

Cognitive theories of depression posit that people's thoughts, inferences, attitudes, and
interpretations, and the way in which they attend to and recall information, can increase their …

Clinical anxiety disorders and elevated levels of anxiety vulnerability are characterized by
cognitive biases, and this processing selectivity has been implicated in theoretical accounts …

An important emphasis of the literature on generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) has been to
achieve a greater understanding of the function of emotion (eg, avoidance, dysregulation) in …

Higher level cognitive processes are characteristically human. Until recently, these
processes were studied in a vacuum, separately from theaffective system, as if they were …

We present an evidence-based model of pathological worry in which worry arises from an
interaction between involuntary (bottom-up) processes, such as habitual biases in attention …

People with emotional disorders, such as social anxiety disorder (SAD), generalized anxiety
disorder (GAD), and depression, demonstrate a consistent tendency, or bias, to generate …