“…Attention involves two partially segregated systems: an endogenous system, responsible for the voluntary selection of target stimuli; and an exogenous system, automatically activated when salient stimuli are exhibited outside attentional focus (Egeth & Yantis, 1997;Posner, 1980;Theeuwes, 1994), as can happen for emotional stimuli (Carretié, 2014). There is compelling evidence of preferential processing of emotional versus non-emotional stimuli in healthy individualsmainly for threat-related stimuli, such as snakes (e.g., Gomes, Soares, Silva, & Silva, 2018;Langeslag & van Strien, 2018;Soares, Lindström, Esteves, & Öhman, 2014;Öhman, Soares, Juth, Lindström, & Esteves, 2012) and angry faces (e.g., Gong & Li, 2022;Pinkham, Griffin, Baron, Sasson, & Gur, 2010;Shasteen, Sasson, & Pinkham, 2014;Öhman, Lundqvist, & Esteves, 2001), but see Pool, Brosch, Delplanque, and Sander (2016). This appears to arise from a subcortical pathway to the amygdala (e.g., McFadyen, Mattingley, & Garrido, 2019;Méndez-Bértolo et al, 2016) and to enhance the detection of a potential hazard in the environment (LeDoux, 2022;Öhman, 2005).…”