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The tasks employed in the studies were assigned arating of either “yes”, “no”, or “mixed”, depending on the reported evidence fora specific attentional bias effect.Results: A specific attentional bias was found in only 19 of 37 tasks. Whenattentional biases were found they tended to occur at post-recognition stages ofprocessing and to be interference effects, rather than facilitative effects.Limitations: There were common weaknesses across studies, includingunrepresentative participant samples and inappropriate comparison stimuli andparticipant groups. Furthermore, it is difficult to identify the relative contributionof automatic and strategic processes in ranging cognitive paradigms.Conclusions: Attentional biases in PTSD are not reliably found in publishedresearch employing a range of experimental tasks. 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