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Participants completed a free-viewing eye-tracking task in which pairs of emotional and neutral faces (angry\u2013neutral, sad\u2013neutral, happy\u2013neutral) were presented. Attentional bias was analyzed by distinguishing early orienting (proportion of first fixation) and later attentional maintenance (total dwell time).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Results indicated that individuals with CDS (CDS only and CDS+ADHD groups) showed a trend toward a lower proportion of first fixations toward angry faces as compared to those without CDS. In addition, individuals with CDS exhibited longer dwell times for all emotional faces. In contrast, individuals with ADHD symptoms (ADHD only and CDS+ADHD groups) demonstrated greater dwell time specifically for angry faces as compared to those without ADHD symptoms.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>These findings suggest that CDS may be associated with difficulty detecting angry faces at the early stage of attentional processing and with generalized difficulty disengaging from emotional faces at the later stage. By contrast, ADHD symptoms may be selectively associated with anger-specific attentional bias at the later stage. 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