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Among the proposed biases, anger was linked to a more negative situation interpretation bias, impulsiveness to a more negative memory bias, and anxiety showed a trend toward a positive association with attention bias, indicating that as anxiety levels increase, so does the tendency to direct attention to positive elements within ambivalent CSs.

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Nevertheless, we acknowledge the limited merit of these mediation analyses when correlations are weak and marginally significant.

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Yet higher BIS was linked to a more negative memory bias (ambivalent CSs more often recalled as paired with negative USs), and there was a near-significant trend whereby more positive (versus negative) recall of ambivalent pairings predicted more positive (versus negative) CS ratings.

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