Despite a longstanding and widespread influence of the diagnostic approach to mental ill
health, there is an emerging and growing consensus that such psychiatric nosologies may …

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 …

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to increase risk for the development of health anxiety.
Given that elevated health anxiety can contribute to maladaptive health behaviors, there is a …

What has emotion got to do with attention? Why does the interface between these two
warrant additional empirical and theoretical consideration? The answer lies in the many …

This is a Classic Edition of Adrian Wells and Gerald Matthews' award-winning textbook on
attention and emotion, which now includes new section introductions. The book won the …

Have you ever had recurrent thoughts about a former flame, experienced difficulty focusing
on your work because you kept thinking about an upcoming vacation, or reminded yourself …

Initiated as part of the ongoing deliberation about the nosological structure of DSM, this
review aims to evaluate whether the anxiety disorders share features of responding that …

Cognitive approaches to emotional disorders are now common in clinical psychology, but
abnormalities in cognitive processing (with which this book is concerned) are still not well …

We present an evidence-based model of pathological worry in which worry arises from an
interaction between involuntary (bottom-up) processes, such as habitual biases in attention …

Evidence of preattentive and attentional biases in anxiety is evaluated from a cognitive-
motivational perspective. According to this analysis, vulnerability to anxiety stems mainly …