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 …

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

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 …

Our society celebrates failure as a teachable moment. Yet in five studies (total N= 1,674),
failure did the opposite: It undermined learning. Across studies, participants answered …

Anxiety vulnerability and dysfunction are characterized by an attentional bias to threat.
Cognitive training procedures designed to modify selective attentional responding to threat …

Fear is a ubiquitous experience among humankind that can be traced back to a distant
mammalian heritage. Recent world events, with terrorist attacks randomly striking innocent …

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 …

There is a wealth of evidence demonstrating enhanced attention to threat in high trait
anxious individuals (HTA) compared with low trait anxious individuals (LTA). In two …

The Approach–Avoidance Task (AAT) was employed to indirectly investigate avoidance
reactions to stimuli of potential social threat. Forty-three highly socially anxious individuals …

Emotion Science is a state-of-the-art introduction to the study of emotion. Drawing on an
extraordinarily wide array of research from psychology and neuroscience, the author …