The influence of positive and negative affect on emotional attention by Fox, E, Yiend, J, Barnicot, K, Williams, M

“…<strong>Results:</strong> Using emotional peripheral cueing we found that, at short cue durations, dysphoric individuals’ (those with low positive and high negative affect) attention to facial expressions was slowed by emotional compared to neutral invalid cues. …”

Preconscious processing biases predict emotional reactivity to stress. by Fox, E, Cahill, S, Zougkou, K

“…Importantly, a measure of selective processing provided a better indicator of subsequent emotional reactivity than self-report measures of neuroticism, trait-anxiety, and extraversion. …”

Anxiety and sensitivity to gaze direction in emotionally expressive faces. by Fox, E, Mathews, A, Calder, A, Yiend, J

Focusing on fear: Attentional disengagement from emotional faces. by Georgiou, G, Bleakley, C, Hayward, J, Russo, R, Dutton, K, Eltiti, S, Fox, E

Perspectives from affective science on understanding the nature of emotion by Fox, E

“…Emotions are at the heart of how we understand the human mind and of our relationships within the social world. …”

Processing emotional facial expressions: the role of anxiety and awareness. by Fox, E

“…The implications of these results for understanding the relations between attention, emotion, and anxiety are discussed.…”

The face of fear: Effects of eye gaze and emotion on visual attention. by Mathews, A, Fox, E, Yiend, J, Calder, A

The influence of social comparison on cognitive bias modification and emotional vulnerability by Standage, H, Harris, J, Fox, E

“…Although generally successful in reducing emotional vulnerability in clinical populations, the impact of CBM interventions has been somewhat variable. …”

The influence of social comparison on cognitive bias modification and emotional vulnerability by Standage, H, Harris, J, Fox, E

“…The influence of social comparison on cognitive bias modification and emotional potential clinical applications of CBM. Although generally successful in reducing emotional vulnerability in clinical populations, the impact of CBM interventions has been somewhat variable. …”

Facial Expressions of Emotion: Are Angry Faces Detected More Efficiently? by Fox, E, Lester, V, Russo, R, Bowles, R, Pichler, A, Dutton, K

Introduction to the special section on cognitive bias modification in emotional disorders. by Koster, E, Fox, E, MacLeod, C

“…Cognitive models of anxiety disorders and unipolar depression have postulated that selective information processing plays an important role in the development and maintenance of emotional psychopathology. Cognitive bias modification (CBM) procedures have recently been developed to test this theoretical claim. …”

Anxiety modulates the degree of attentive resources required to process emotional faces. by Fox, E, Russo, R, Georgiou, G

“…Thus, individual differences in self-reported anxiety are an important determinant of the attentional control of emotional processing.…”

Attentional Bias for Threat: Evidence for Delayed Disengagement from Emotional Faces. by Fox, E, Russo, R, Dutton, K

“…Moreover, heightened trait anxiety resulted in increased attentional dwell-time on emotional facial stimuli, relative to neutral faces. …”

Does emotion processing require attention? The effects of fear conditioning and perceptual load. by Yates, A, Ashwin, C, Fox, E

Neural mechanisms of eye gaze as a function of emotional expression and working memory load by Tipura, E, Fox, E

“…Working memory load impacted cueing irrespective of emotion and anxiety in analysis of reaction times. …”

Trait anxiety and perceptual load as determinants of emotion processing in a fear conditioning paradigm. by Fox, E, Yates, A, Ashwin, C

Confusing procedures with process when appraising the impact of cognitive bias modification on emotional vulnerability by Grafton, B, MacLeod, C, Rudaizky, D, Holmes, E, Salemink, E, Fox, E, Notebaert, L

“…Here, we distinguish two important questions concerning cognitive bias modification research that are not differentiated in the meta-analysis recently published by Cristea et al (2015) in this journal: (1) do the varying procedures that investigators have employed with the intention of modifying cognitive bias, on average, significantly impact emotional vulnerability?; and (2) does the process of successfully modifying cognitive bias, on average, significantly impact emotional vulnerability? …”

Do threatening stimuli draw or hold visual attention in subclinical anxiety? by Fox, E, Russo, R, Bowles, R, Dutton, K

“…Biases in information processing undoubtedly play an important role in the maintenance of emotion and emotional disorders. In an attentional cueing paradigm, threat words and angry faces had no advantage over positive or neutral words (or faces) in attracting attention to their own location, even for people who were highly state-anxious. …”

Individual differences in environmental sensitivity by Booth, C

“…Together, these studies show that high SPS reflects heightened environmental sensitivity, within a diathesis-stress context, as it reflects increased psychopathology, in combination with environmental stress. Further, emotion regulation was found to be an important mediating factor, highlighting a potential treatment target for future mental health interventions, designed for high SPS individuals. …”

Investigating the cognitive characteristics of positive mental health and resilience by Parsons, S

“…<p>Mental health is distinct to emotional vulnerability, and can be characterised by wellbeing and functioning well in life. …”