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Attentional Biases to Facial Emotions512Figure 4. Effect of the interactions between congruency and social anxiety traits (LSAS) and congruency and autistic traits (AQ) on reaction times. Shaded areas reflect 95% credible intervalsDiscussionIn the current study, we examined attentional biases toward facial emotional expressions and their association with autistic traits and social anxiety in a general population sample. In line with most previous research, we observed attentional biases toward various emotional facial expressions, using both frequentist as well as Bayesian analysis approaches. In contrast to our hypothesis and a vast amount of literature, higher social anxiety trait levels were overall not associated with a stronger bias to angry facial expressions (i.e., social threat). There was also only an indication of a decreased attention to emotional expressions with higher autistic trait levels for happy facial expressions within our exploratory Bayesian