Attentional control deficits in trait anxiety: Why you see them and why you don't

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Attachment styles and attachment (in)security priming in relation to emotional conflict control

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The neurophysiological mechanisms of emotional conflict are influenced by social associations information of varying valence

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The role of state anxiety in salience-driven distractor processing: evidence from singleton detection and feature search

Huang, J., Sun, X., Mulckhuyse, M., Li, K., Wang, W., Gong, Z., & Qi, S. (2025) · Cognition & Emotion · doi:10.1080/02699931.2025.2539992 · Cited by 1

An Exploratory Study on the Regulatory Effect of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response on Anxiety: Evidence From Functional Near‐Infrared Brain Imaging Technology

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Quantifying variability in attentional shifts during target switching

Eidelman-Rothman, M., Reuveni, O., Keil, A., Kritzman, L., Freche, D., Okon‐Singer, H., & Levit‐Binnun, N. (2025) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhaf329 · Cited by 1

The relation of spatial skills, spatial memory span, and two anxiety types with statistics anxiety in European and North American University students

Gibeau, R.-M., Béland, S., Maloney, E. A., Cantinotti, M. A., Chanquoy, L., Lalande, D. R., Simon, J., Paulis, C., Plancher, G., Boislard, M.-A., et al. (2026) · British Journal of Educational Psychology · doi:10.1111/bjep.70063 · Cited by 1

A nutritional blend of taurine, vitamins B6, B9, and B12 improves motivated behaviors in healthy adults—a double-blinded randomized clinical trial

Anlacan, V. M. M., Jamora, R. D. G., Krattinger, L.-F., Longis, E. D., Hartweg, M., Steinmann, M., & Trovò, L. (2026) · Frontiers in Nutrition · doi:10.3389/fnut.2026.1711478 · Cited by 1

Neurocognitive Profile of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: Cognitive Flexibility, Delay Discounting, and Detail Orientation

McPherson, I. K., Dalton, A. G., Armstrong, K., Martino, B., Asanza, E., Eddy, K. T., Becker, K. R., Franko, D. L., Breithaupt, L. E., Forbush, K. T., et al. (2026) · International Journal of Eating Disorders · doi:10.1002/eat.70077 · Cited by 1

Towards understanding the impacts of anxiety on attention and visual working memory

Spalding, D. M., & Brown, L. A. (2021) · The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin · doi:10.53841/bpscog.2021.1.6.34 · Cited by 1

Genetics of Personality

Sallis, H., Smith, G. D., & Munafo, M. R. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.024 · Cited by 1

Self-Regulation and Control in Personality Functioning

Carver, C. S., & Scheier, M. F. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.029 · Cited by 1

Regulating Test Anxiety by Joy: Based on the Mutual Promotion and Mutual Counteraction (MPMC) Theory of Affect

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A high‐density EEG investigation into the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying differences between personality profiles in social information processing

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Early Safety Discrimination Under Uncertainty in Trait Anxiety: An Event-Related Potential Study

Jin, Y., Zhang, L., Chen, W., & Zheng, X. (2022) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2022.896211 · Cited by 1

The Predictive Effects of Resting-State and Task-Related Prefrontal and Vagal Activity on Cognitive Performances

Doneda, M., Borsa, V. M., Brugnera, A., Compare, A., Rusconi, M. L., Sakatani, K., & Lanzarone, E. (2023) · Journal of Psychophysiology · doi:10.1027/0269-8803/a000327 · Cited by 1

Reactive control and trait anxiety: A novel investigation using event-related potential methodology

Zhang, B., & Xiang, L. (2023) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-023-05147-2 · Cited by 1

Self-Efficacy, Computer Anxiety, Trait Anxiety, and Cognitive Distortions Influence Students' Interest in Learning Mind Your Own Business

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Mediating role of right superior corona microstructural changes in linking attentional control and trait anxiety among youth with childhood maltreatment

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Anxiety symptoms are distinctly related to working memory deficits in adults with ADHD

Rauch, A. A., Soble, J. R., & Silton, R. L. (2025) · Applied Neuropsychology Adult · doi:10.1080/23279095.2024.2449170 · Cited by 8

Personality in Nonhuman Animals

Bell, A. M., & Bensky, M. K. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.023 · Cited by 1

The Trait Approach

Weiß, A., & Deary, I. J. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.005 · Cited by 2

Personality and the Unconscious

Perugini, M., Richetin, J., & Costantini, G. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.008 · Cited by 2

ANSIEDADE X DESEMPENHO ACADÊMICO: UMA ANÁLISE ENTRE ESTUDANTES UNIVERSITÁRIOS

Lopes, J. M., Oliveira, E. B., da Silva, R. E. D. S. E., da Nóbrega, N. K. B., & Fermoseli, A. F. D. O. (2019) · Caderno de Graduação - Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde - UNIT - ALAGOAS · Cited by 1

Tuning in to anxiety-related differences in attentional control: Apprehension of threat improves template switching during visual search.

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Specificity, methodology and psychopathology of emotional attention: An introduction to the special issue

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The Influence of Cognitive Interference and Anxiety on Working Memory and Performance Validity Tests

Dombrowski, C. V. (2016) · OpenCommons - UConn (University of Connecticut) · Cited by 1

Understanding performance under pressure : anxiety, attention, cognitive biases and the perception of failure

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Preface

Corr, P. J., & Matthews, G. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.001 · Cited by 1

Addendum: Statistical Analyses and Computer Programming in Personality

Corr, P. J., & Matthews, G. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.045 · Cited by 1

Lower, not higher, trait anxiety leads to switch cost asymmetry on neutral tasks: a replication and extension of Gustavson et al., 2017.Preprint

Todorović, A., Parsons, S. D., Chapple, L., Taylor, A., & Fox, E. (2022) · PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/aer8b · Cited by 1

Attentional control in subclinical anxiety and depression: depression symptoms are associated with deficits in target facilitation, not distractor inhibitionPreprint

Pike, A. C., Printzlau, F. A. B., von Lautz, A. H., Harmer, C. J., Stokes, M. G., & Noonan, M. P. (2019) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/dhptk · Cited by 1

IDENTIFYING THE VISUAL INFORMATION AND PROCESSES UNDERLYING EXPERT JUDGEMENTS OF DECEPTIVE INTENT

Barton, H. (2013) · Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London)

Anxiety and Cognitive Performance : a Test of Attentional Control Theory

Edwards, E. J. (2015) · e-publications@bond (Bond University)

The Effect of Trait Anxiety and Induced Anxiety on the Updating of Working Memory Function

Ramaghani, N. A. H., Fard, H. H., Taghavi, M. R., & Panahi, H. (2016) · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)

The role of attentional flexibility during emotion processing in resilience and emotional disorders

Sarı, B. A. (2016) · Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University)

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR – HYPOTHALAMUS AND LIMBIC SYSTEM: THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Daisy, A. (2017) · Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research · doi:10.22159/ajpcr.2017.v10i8.19372

Emotion Regulation, Cognitive Closure and Compliance of Spouses in Relationship Conflict

Roth, R. L. (2017) · Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal · doi:10.14738/assrj.418.3684

Working Memory Load Under Anxiety: Quadratic Relations to Cardiac Vagal Control and Inhibition of Distractor Interference

Spangler, D. P. (2016) · VTechWorks (Virginia Tech)

Information Processing Speed in Ageing: Is it task dependent?

Torrens‐Burton, A. (2018) · doi:10.23889/suthesis.40835

THE EFFECTS OF WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY AND TRAIT ANXIETY ON VISUAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY PERFORMANCE

Gonzalez, C. (2019) · CSUSB ScholarWorks (California State University, San Bernardino)

The Utility of Neuropsychological Measures on the Differential Diagnosis of ADHD-Inattentive Type Versus Anxiety in a Pediatric Outpatient Behavioral Health Population

Stapleton, E. J. (2019) · Digital Commons - DU (University of Denver)

When Students Fail: Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying Test Anxiety

Schillinger, F. L. (2018) · eDiss (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) · doi:10.53846/goediss-6866

An empirical evaluation of executive function in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Demetriou, E. (2018) · The Sydney eScholarship Repository (The University of Sydney)

Neural Correlates of Adolescent Mindfulness, Working Memory, and Internalizing Symptoms

Stein, J. A. (2020) · doi:10.11575/prism/38102

Examining Patterns of Executive Functioning Across Dimensions of Psychopathology

Roye, S. (2020) · Louisiana State University · doi:10.31390/gradschool_dissertations.5347

Personality Assessment Methods

Boyle, G. J., & Helmes, E. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.011 · Cited by 1

Personality and Intelligence

Schermer, J. A., & Saklofske, D. H. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.014

Social Relations and Social Support

Austin, E. Q., Knack, J. M., Jensen‐Campbell, L. A., & Rex‐Lear, M. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.036

Neural mechanisms underlying anxiety-related deficits of attentional inhibition: direct ERP evidence from the Pd componentPreprint

Hu, L., Zhang, H., Tang, H., Shen, L., Wu, R. H., & Yan, H. (2021) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2021.10.09.463788

General Introduction

Corr, P. J., & Matthews, G. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.002

Drawn to distraction: Anxiety impairs neural suppression of known distractor featuresin visual searchPreprint

Salahub, C. M., & Emrich, S. M. (2020) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/98jur

The impact of the attention training technique on attention control and worry

Stewart, K. (2021) · doi:10.32920/ryerson.14662032 · Cited by 1

The impact of the attention training technique on attention control and worry

Stewart, K. (2021) · doi:10.32920/ryerson.14662032.v1

Index

Corr, P. J., & Matthews, G. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.046

Carga cognitiva y control atencional en puertorriqueños con trastorno obsesivocompulsivo

Santiago-Mejías, S., Martínez, K., Centeno, F. D. L., & Sellas, C. (2021) · Revista Iberoamericana de Psicología · doi:10.33881/2027-1786.rip.15103

الإخفاقات المعرفیة لدى بعض العینات الإکلینیکیة

سلیمان, م. ف. ع. (2022) · مجلة وادي النيل للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية والاجتماعية والتربويه · doi:10.21608/jwadi.2022.253622

Research Reviews

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Music neurofeedback training improves college students' negative emotions and attention statusPreprint

Liu, J., Zhang, H., & Feng, L. (2023) · Research Square · doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-3291602/v1

Quantifying Variability in Attentional Shifts During Target Switching Using Steady-State Visual Evoked PotentialsPreprint

Eidelman-Rothman, M., Reuveni, O., Keil, A., Kritzman, L., Freche, D., Okon‐Singer, H., & Levit‐Binnun, N. (2023) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2023.10.21.563393

Trait cognitive and somatic anxiety differentially impact recognition in visual working memory binding tasksPreprint

Spalding, D., Obonsawin, M. C., & Brown, L. A. (2024) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/ae946

Changes in metacognitions and executive functions during mindfulness and acceptance-based intervention among individuals with anxiety disorders: A randomized waitlist-controlled trial

Didehban, R., Zemestani, M., Asmundson, G. J. G., & Bakhshaie, J. (2024) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2024.100818 · Cited by 1

The label-feedback effect is influenced by target category in visual search

Frugarello, P., Rusconi, E., & Job, R. (2024) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0306736

Impact of anxiety profiles in trait anxiety on visual discrimination performance in Wistar rats

Guo, Y., Li, X., Gao, K., & Sun, X. (2024) · Neuroscience Letters · doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2024.137920

Readers with trait anxiety have poor reading efficiency: evidence from the perceptual span in Chinese reading

Huiyong, Z., & Yingchao, W. (2024) · Cogent Psychology · doi:10.1080/23311908.2024.2404734 · Cited by 1

The Relationship between Inhibition, Updating, and Shifting: Based on the Hypothesis of Sequential Parallel Processing Model

田, 民. (2024) · Advances in Psychology · doi:10.12677/ap.2024.1411764

Effect of trait anxiety on visual working memory capacity: The role of filtering efficiency

Yin, M., Wei, H., Zou, M., He, Y., Hu, H., & Wang, X. (2024) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/nyas.15277

Working Memory

Wasserman, T. H., & Wasserman, L. D. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-78732-4_10

Attentional Control

Wasserman, T. H., & Wasserman, L. D. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-78732-4_7

An experimental study of the effect of anxiety on lexical processing of college students: evidence from true-false word judgment and semantic category judgment tasks

Huiyong, Z., & Xinping, P. (2025) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1452867

Discrete early maladaptive schema subgroups in remitted bipolar disorders: association with neuropsychological performance, residual symptoms, and psychosocial functioning

M’Baïlara, K., Munuera, C., Weil, F., Passerieux, C., & Roux, P. (2025) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1476345 · Cited by 1

Digital tablet activities to alleviate preoperative anxiety: variability in anxiety and flow levels in children

Tordet, C., Erhel, S., Dodeler, V., Jamet, E., Nardi, N., Rouxel, G., Wodey, E., & Gonthier, C. (2025) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-025-07807-x

Cognitive processes in goal-directed attentional system dysfunction of generalized anxiety disorderPreprint

Hao, X., Liu, X., Yuan, D., Liang, C., Yang, X., Zhang, B., Liu, S., Li, Z., & Ming, D. (2025) · Research Square · doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-6320865/v1

Development and Evaluation of a Mindfulness Recording for College Test Anxiety: A Pilot Study

Chuesh, E., Lam, V., Goros, M., White, B., & Eaton, L. (2025) · College Teaching · doi:10.1080/87567555.2025.2509093 · Cited by 1

Relationships Between Behavioural Inhibitory Control and Cognitive Control Strategies and Beliefs in Response to Affective Stimuli

Escamilla, F. S., Delgado, M. R., & Nieto, M. Á. P. (2025) · Journal of Experimental Psychopathology · doi:10.1177/20438087251344350

Cognitive Control Mechanisms in Male Smokers Mediate Difficulty in Disengaging Attention from Cigarette-Related Cues

Zhang, Y., Qiao, Y., & Wang, S. (2025) · Substance Use & Misuse · doi:10.1080/10826084.2025.2577278

Hemodynamic changes in anxious depression adolescents during a verbal fluency task: A fNIRS study

Sun, J., Liu, X., Lin, S., Niu, K., Li, B., Chu, S., Zhou, D.-S., & Zhang, M. (2025) · Journal of Psychiatric Research · doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2025.11.038

Test anxiety spares behavioral performance but alters ERP response in working memory updating

Hua, W., Gao, J., Sun, J., Jin, Z., & Long, F. (2026) · Biological Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109190

The Effectiveness and Mechanisms of Action of App-based Interventions for Improving Mental Health and Workplace Wellbeing: A Randomised Controlled Trial (Preprint)Preprint

MacLellan, A., Fairchild, G. F., & Button, K. S. (2026) · doi:10.2196/preprints.91564

Can't look away – The effects of social media cues signaling social evaluation on the attention allocation of socially anxious individuals

Hallel, H., Maharat, E., Sheppes, G., & Lazarov, A. (2026) · Computers in Human Behavior Reports · doi:10.1016/j.chbr.2026.100961

Self-Focused and External Attention in Speech Anxiety

Chen, H., Guntermann, M., Qian, M., & Gerlach, A. L. (2026) · Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie · doi:10.1026/1616-3443/a000849

Adaptive compensatory mechanism in the regulation of language switching performance under negative emotional states: An ERP study

Jiang, S., Zhang, X., & Chen, B. (2026) · Bilingualism Language and Cognition · doi:10.1017/s1366728926101369

Anxiety disorders alter cognitive-motor integration during visuomotor adaptation and retention

Barzi, L., Wilson, M., & Hill, C. M. (2026) · Experimental Brain Research · doi:10.1007/s00221-026-07304-y

Neural correlates of metamemory judgments in worry: An ERP study

Irak, M., & Çamoğlu, Ö. (2026) · Biological Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109291

Neurophysiological evidence for goal‐directed attentional control dysfunction in generalized anxiety disorder

Hao, X., Liu, X., Yuan, D., Liang, C., Yang, X., Zhang, B. Y., Li, Z., Liu, S. S., & Ming, D. (2026) · Journal of intelligent medicine. · doi:10.1002/jim4.70037

High social anxiety is associated with attenuated cognitive-control modulation in a mixed threat–neutral context: evidence from ERPs and time-frequency analysis

Wang, H., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Yu, Q., Guo, M., & Cao, J. (2026) · BMC Psychology · doi:10.1186/s40359-026-04996-3

Mechanisms of Trait Anxiety’s Influence on College Students’ Academic Procrastination: The Chain Mediation Role of Self-Control and Short Video Addiction

Sun, X., & Xu, J. (2026) · The Journal of Psychology · doi:10.1080/00223980.2026.2688113

Stress-Integrated Learning and Decision Framework (SILDF): A Comprehensive Theoretical Model for High-Stress Learning Environments

Henderson, G. D., & Horton, C. (2026) · Open Journal of Social Sciences · doi:10.4236/jss.2026.146039

Dissociable neurocognitive mechanisms of state and trait anxiety in working memory: Threat-induced alterations in decision dynamics and attenuation of large-scale network reconfiguration

Xin, F., Lai, J., Liu, R., Wu, J., & Chen, Q. (2026) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.122084

Trait cognitive and somatic anxiety differentially impact recognition in visual working memory binding tasksPreprint

Obonsawin, M. C., Nicholls, L. A. B., & Spalding, D. (2026) · PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)

Development and validation of the performance evaluation anxiety task: a computerized task to identify functionally significant test anxiety

Winter, K. A., Dasinger, T. M., & Bourassa-Price, E. A. (2026) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1819517

The selective dynamics of proactive and reactive control in GAD: A taVNS study using hierarchical drift diffusion modeling

Bai, S., Liu, P., Long, F., & Wang, R. (2026) · Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3758/s13415-026-01486-2

The influence of emotion regulation on convergent thinking under different cognitive loads

Zhao, Y., Yue, W. A. N. G., Lu, F., Wang, J., Xing, Q., & Wider, W. (2026) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0353216

Limitations of standard memory assessments in breast cancer survivors

Bradley-Garcia, M., Tanguay, A. F. N., Haddad, G., Jensen, A., & Sekeres, M. J. (2026) · Translational Neuroscience · doi:10.1515/tnsci-2025-0401

Does trait anxiety impair inhibitory control processes in an RSVP paradigm? Evidence from ERPs

Li, Y., Mao, N., 西憲, 敬., Zhang, Q., & Cui, L. (2026) · Biological Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109372

Associations of age, trait anxiety, and fluid intelligence with motion extrapolation performance in professional drivers

Biernacki, M. P. (2026) · Journal of Transport & Health · doi:10.1016/j.jth.2026.102434

Smartphone Addiction Modulates Object-Based Attention

Liu, J., Yang, T., Gao, Y., Zhang, Y., Kong, F., & Zhao, J. (2026) · Behavioral Sciences · doi:10.3390/bs16091581

Multiple dimensions of reward-sensitivity and cognitive control relate to psychopathology: an exploratory structural equation modeling approach

Howard, A. K., Kaiser, R. H., & Friedman, N. P. (2026) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1823262 · Cited by 1

The Brain on Controlling Attention and Managing Anxiety

Karakol, P., Cömert, C., Marra, S., & Tokgöz, E. (2026) · CRC Press eBooks · doi:10.1201/9781003646044-11

A neurocognitive account of attentional control theory: how does trait anxiety affect the brain’s attentional networks?

Eysenck, M. W., Moser, J. S., Derakshan, N., Hepsomali, P., & Allen, P. (2022) · Cognition & Emotion · doi:10.1080/02699931.2022.2159936 · Cited by 142

Anxiety and cognitive performance: Attentional control theory

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