Publication Name	World Journal of Psychiatry
Manuscript ID	111286
Country	China

Category	Psychology, Clinical
Manuscript Type	Observational Study
Article Title	Threat-related attentional bias in subjects with different looming cognitive styles: Evidence based on eye-tracking study
Manuscript Source	Unsolicited Manuscript
All Author List	Xuan Wang, Shuai Chen, Bin Tian and Wen-Peng Cai
Funding Agency and Grant Number	Funding Agency Grant Number Shanghai Municipal Health Commission GWV-10.2-YQ46
Corresponding Author	Wen-Peng Cai, Associate Professor, MD, PhD, Faculty of Psychology, Naval Medical University, No. 800 Xiangyin Road, Shanghai 200433, China. wpcai@smmu.edu.cn
Key Words	Anxiety; Attentional bias; Looming cognitive styles; College students; Eye-tracking study
Core Tip	This eye-tracking study reveals a threat-related attentional bias in individuals with high looming cognitive style (LCS). High LCS individuals exhibited a vigilance-avoidance pattern characterized by initial vigilance toward threat stimuli, followed by attentional avoidance, alongside sustained attentional maintenance to threat. Paradoxically, they also showed prolonged overall attention to threat. This temporal dissociation between early vigilance and later avoidance, captured via precise eye-movement metrics, refines the Looming Vulnerability Model and provides crucial empirical evidence on the dynamic attentional mechanisms underlying threat perception in cognitive vulnerability.
Citation	Wang X, Chen S, Tian B, Cai WP. Threat-related attentional bias in subjects with different looming cognitive styles: Evidence based on eye-tracking study. World J Psychiatry 2025; In press

Received	2025-07-03 08:53
Peer-Review Started	2025-07-03 08:56
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Return for Revision	2025-07-14 06:46
Revised	2025-07-21 08:15
Second Decision	2025-08-19 02:43
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Accepted by Executive Editor-in-Chief	2025-08-19 07:05
Articles in Press	2025-08-19 07:05
Publication Fee Transferred	2025-07-22 12:18
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