Barking up the wrong tree in attentional bias modification? Comparing the sensitivity of four tasks to attentional biases.

•Performance on attentional blink task was strongly affected by facial expression.•Dot-probe and cueing tasks lack discriminatory sensitivity to facial expressions.•Attentional blink task provided a temporal presentation of attentional bias.•More powerful ABM paradigms might be developed using the attentional blink task.