Depressed individuals exhibit an attentional bias towards mood‐congruent stimuli, yet evidence for biased processing of threat‐related information in human interaction remains scarce.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Attentional bias towards interpersonal aggression in depression – an eye movement study (2021) · doi

  Depressed individuals exhibit an attentional bias towards mood‐congruent stimuli, yet evidence for biased processing of threat‐related information in human interaction remains scarce.

  Keywords: depressed individuals exhibit attentional bias towards mood congruent stimuli evidence biased processing threat related information
• Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: The Attentional Basis of Positive Affectivity (2012) · doi

  While this has invited speculation that differential attentional responding to positive information may directly contribute to the determination of this emotional temperament, the causal basis of their association as yet remains unknown.

  Keywords: invited speculation differential attentional responding positive information directly contribute determination emotional temperament causal basis association
• Attentional biases for angry faces in unipolar depression (2006) · doi

  However, to date, the nature of this attentional bias is still poorly understood and further exploration of this topic to advance current knowledge of attentional biases in depression seems imperative.

  Keywords: attentional date nature bias still poorly understood further exploration topic advance current knowledge biases depression