Attention Bias or the Attention Control Ability: Measuring the Role of Attention Bias as a Cause for Anxiety Vulnerability

To our knowledge, at the moment there is no study to directly test the hypothesis of threatening information bias as a cause of anxiety, by means of using a control group. In the present study we propose the concomitant testing of two hypothesis regarding anxiety etiology: the threatening information bias hypothesis and the attention control deficit hypothesis. The results confirm the causal role of attention bias in determining the anxiety level.