Attentional bias is the tendency of our perception to be affected by our recurring thoughts. For example, people who frequently think about the clothes they wear pay more attention to the ...

Anxiety does not appear to impair people’s ability to disengage attention from threatening stimuli when they are sufficiently ...

Sequential testing enhanced pain modulation clarity, while attention to pain reduced its inhibitory effectiveness.

From attentional bias — where someone focuses on only one or two of several possible outcomes — to zero-risk bias — where we place too much value on reducing a small risk to zero — the ...

These findings suggest that attentional biases for drug cues reflect a normal cognitive process through which humans are wired to automatically direct our attention to learned predictors of reward.

The paper, “Attentional bias toward threatening stimuli in major depressive disorder: A free-viewing eye-tracking study,” was authored by Xiaobo Liu, Yuxi Li, Yuan Chen, Chen Xue, Jin Fan ...

An attentional bias might make it seem that you’re surrounded by more than the usual stimuli, but you’re probably not. You’re just more aware.

Every decision we make is influenced by subconscious behavioral biases. They cause us to make snap judgments based on bad information, to be unfair and to waste time. This is clearly problematic ...

These findings suggest that attentional biases for drug cues reflect a normal cognitive process through which humans are wired to automatically direct our attention to learned predictors of reward.