Responding to Threat: Associations Between Neural Reactivity to and Avoidance of Threat in Pediatric Anxiety

External and internal attention processes in the early integration of cognition and emotion: Risk and protective factors for anxiety in the context of behavioral inhibition.

“…This pattern of hypervigilance and hyperfixation seems at odds with many clinical insights in that anxiety is often marked by a behavioral avoidance of perceived or anticipated threat (Heuer et al, 2007;Kashdan et al, 2014;Kitt et al, 2022). Initial attempts to reconcile this potential paradox noted that these processes and behaviors unfold at different levels of analysis (Mogg et al, 1997).…”