Threat-related attentional bias in anxious and nonanxious individuals: a meta-analytic study.

Y Bar-Haim, D Lamy, L Pergamin… - Psychological …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Cognitive vulnerability to emotional disorders

A Mathews, C MacLeod - Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol., 2005 - annualreviews.org
A review of recent research on cognitive processing indicates that biases in attention,
memory, and interpretation, as well as repetitive negative thoughts, are common across …

Masking emotions: Face masks impair how we read emotions

M Gori, L Schiatti, MB Amadeo - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
To date, COVID-19 has spread across the world, changing our way of life and forcing us to
wear face masks. This report demonstrates that face masks influence the human ability to …

[HTML][HTML] Anxiety and attention to threat: Cognitive mechanisms and treatment with attention bias modification

K Mogg, BP Bradley - Behaviour research and therapy, 2016 - Elsevier
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 meta-analytic investigation of the relationship between attentional bias and subjective craving in substance abuse.

M Field, MR Munafò, IHA Franken - Psychological bulletin, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Theoretical models of addiction suggest that attentional bias for substance-related cues
should be associated with self-reported craving. The authors evaluated the strength of the …

Attention processes in the maintenance and treatment of social phobia: hypervigilance, avoidance and self-focused attention

SM Bögels, W Mansell - Clinical psychology review, 2004 - Elsevier
Four domains of evidence regarding the relationship between attention and social phobia
are reviewed:(1) possible maintaining factor,(2) causal relationship,(3) specific relationship …

[HTML][HTML] The aetiology and maintenance of social anxiety disorder: A synthesis of complementary theoretical models and formulation of a new integrated model

QJJ Wong, RM Rapee - Journal of affective disorders, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Within maintenance models of social anxiety disorder (SAD), a number of
cognitive and behavioural factors that drive the persistence of SAD have been proposed …

[HTML][HTML] Social anxiety disorder and stuttering: Current status and future directions

L Iverach, RM Rapee - Journal of fluency disorders, 2014 - Elsevier
Anxiety is one of the most widely observed and extensively studied psychological
concomitants of stuttering. Research conducted prior to the turn of the century produced …

Oxytocin attenuates amygdala reactivity to fear in generalized social anxiety disorder

I Labuschagne, KL Phan, A Wood, M Angstadt… - …, 2010 - nature.com
Patients with generalized social anxiety disorder (GSAD) exhibit heightened activation of the
amygdala in response to social cues conveying threat (eg, fearful/angry faces). The …

Attention training for generalized social anxiety disorder.

NB Schmidt, JA Richey, JD Buckner… - Journal of abnormal …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Attentional bias toward negative social cues is thought to serve an etiological and/or
maintaining role in social anxiety disorder (SAD). The current study tested whether training …