Blood-injection-injury (BII) phobia can lead to avoidance of crucial medical procedures and
to detrimental health consequences, even among health workers. Yet unlike other specific …

The role of attention bias in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders has been
studied extensively over decades. Attention bias reflects maladaptation in cognitive …

The attention system that allocates resources across competing aspects of the environment
is influenced by biases toward particular types of stimuli, such as cues of threat (eg, angry …

Emotional perceptions of math-related information can have profound effects on attitudes
about math, which, in turn, may lead to decreased math achievements. A large body of …

Background: As stress continues to mount in everyday life, there is a corresponding uptick in
emotional distress, notably anxiety and depression. Aims: The present research, grounded …

The effect of the babyface schema includes three typical responses, namely, the preference
response, viewing motivation, and attention bias towards infant faces. It has been theorised …

Positively imagined activities may capture visual attention due to an increase in positive
value. Increasing attention toward activities, in turn, may prove useful for clinical …

Cognitive Biases in Health and Psychiatric Disorders: Neurophysiological Foundations
focuses on the neurophysiological basis of biases in attention, interpretation, expectancy …

Human attention is biased by several motivational factors. For instance, threat attracts
attention. People also preferentially pay attention to goal-relevant stimuli even when they …

The current experiment examined the effect of fair-related stimuli on attentional orienting and
the role of cardiac vagal tone indexed by heart rate variability (HRV). Neutral faces were …