Emotional sensitization highlights the attentional bias in blood-injection-injury phobics: An ERP study

▶ Repetitive exposure to phobic cues induces emotional sensitization in blood phobics. ▶ Attentional bias occurs during picture viewing by inducing emotional sensitization. ▶ Mutilations elicit larger N100 and smaller late positive potentials in phobics than in controls. ▶ ERPs to mutilations suggest a vigilant-avoidant pattern of attention in blood phobics.