Avoidance is a key symptom of anxiety disorders. Maladaptive avoidance impairs general
functioning acutely and maintains chronic anxiety. A better understanding of the …

Highlights•Anxious individuals and those at risk show attention biases to irrelevant
threats.•These attention biases are related to imbalanced prefrontal-limbic-sensory …

Because approach/avoidance is a crucial response to environmental stimuli, this type of
action should have left its trace on our sensorimotor system. Recent work, however …

How people experience nature influences their attitudes and actions towards it. Having had
a negative encounter with an animal may facilitate avoidance and freezing responses which …

Previous research has revealed that threats lead to conflicting conclusions about the
performance of group creativity. In this study, it was proposed that the interactive mode …

This study examined avoidance learning using a second-order threat conditioning
paradigm. Participants completed fear acquisition wherein a second-order threat cue …

The automatic visual attentional procession of threatening stimuli over non-threatening cues
has long been a question. The so-called classical visual search task (VST) has quickly …

Previous findings regarding the relationship between emotional valence and psychological
distance were mixed. The current research examined whether emotional intensity …

Mood is a lasting affective state that influences motivation and decision-making by pre-
sha** a subject's expectations (pessimism/optimism). Mood states affect biases in …

Individuals and society as a whole seem to be particularly fearful of cancer. A web-based
study with data collected from Qualtrics panels in the United States (N= 810) was conducted …