Many emotional stimuli are processed without being consciously perceived. Recent
evidence indicates that subcortical structures have a substantial role in this processing …

Gaze—where one looks, how long, and when—plays an essential part in human social
behavior. While many aspects of social gaze have been reviewed, there is no …

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 …

Humans in different cultures develop a similar capacity to recognize the emotional signals of
diverse facial expressions. This capacity is mediated by a brain network that involves …

Most infants exhibit an attentional bias for faces and fearful facial expressions. These biases
reduce toward the third year of life, but little is known about the development of the biases …

Most theoretical models of anxiety disorders implicate maladaptive visuo-spatial attentional
processing of threat-relevant information in the onset and maintenance of symptoms. We …

According to cognitive models of anxiety, attentional biases for threat may cause or maintain
anxiety states. Previous research using spatial cueing tasks has been interpreted in terms of …

The adult brain is endowed with mechanisms subserving enhanced processing of salient
emotional and social cues. Stimuli associated with threat represent one such class of cues …

The human face is a visual pattern of great social and biological importance. While previous
studies have shown that attention may be preferentially directed and engaged longer by …

Why do states often refuse to yield to military threats from a more powerful actor, such as the
United States? Why do they frequently prefer war to compliance? International Relations …