“…In the field of visual attention, many studies have examined attentional bias toward emotional stimuli, which can be further divided into negative bias and positive bias (for negative bias, see Hansen & Hansen, 1988;Fox et al, 2000;Horstmann & Bauland, 2006;Pinkham et al, 2010; for positive bias, see: Juth et al, 2005;Williams et al, 2005;Becker et al, 2011; for reviews, see Kauschke et al, 2019;Xu et al, 2019). "Negative bias" refers to the processing advantage of negative stimuli (e.g., angry, fearful, sad, or disgusted faces) over positive stimuli (i.e., a happy face); conversely, a "positive bias" refers to the preference for positive stimuli (i.e., a happy face) in emotional processing (Kauschke et al, 2019;Yuan et al, 2019). Interestingly, VWM studies have revealed a similar phenomenon, finding both negative and positive advantages to VWM performance (for negative bias, see Jackson et al, 2008Jackson et al, , 2009Sessa et al, 2011;Becker et al, 2014; for positive bias, see Xie et al, 2017;Spotorno et al, 2018;Curby et al, 2019).…”