Does Threat Have an Advantage After All? – Proposing a Novel Experimental Design to Investigate the Advantages of Threat-Relevant Cues in Visual Processing

The automatic visual attentional procession of threatening stimuli over non-threatening cues has long been a question. The so-called classical visual search task has quickly become the go-to paradigm to investigate this. However, the latest results showed that the confounding results could originate from the shortcomings of the VST. Thus, here we propose a novel approach to the behavioural testing of the threat superiority effect. We conducted...