The study was conducted in order to verify the occurrence of cognitive biases of attention due to exposure to visual emotional stimuli of varying degrees of emotional value and emotional intensity with regard to the degree of anxiety. An experimental design of repeated measurements on dependent samples with three factors; the value of emotional images, emotional intensity and the degree of anxiety was used, with the dependent variable duration of fixation. Photographs from the IAPS base (Lang et al, 2005), were used as visual emotion stimuli were used, with a complete range of value (1-9) for the dimensions of emotional valence and emotional arousal, while the dimension of dominance consisted solely images with values between 4 and 6. The study was conducted on a sample of 55 students of the University of Zagreb, with an average age of 23 years, and of varying degrees of anxiety. The level of anxiety was measured using the STAI self-assessment questionnaire (Spielberger, 1968, according to Spielberger, 2000), intended for the determination of state and trait anxiety. The experiment was conducted using an eye-tracker instrument in a way that the participanst watched paired photographs that were shown on a computer screen, where one image was shown on the left and the other on the right side of the screen. A statistically significant difference was expected in fixation duration due to the presentation of photographs with unpleasant emotional value in relation to the photographs of neutral or pleasant emotional value. Furthermore, expected a statistically significant difference was expected in fixation duration due to the presentation photographs of unpleasant emotional values with regard to the level of anxiety, in the direction of longer fixation in participants with a higher level of anxiety. Contrary to expectations, the main effect of emotional intensity and emotional value was not gained. The main effect of the degree of anxiety of the individual proved to be significant as highly anxious individuals have a longer overall duration of fixation on the presented photographs. Furthermore, the results show longer fixation duration while observing medium intensity in contrast to low intensity neutral photographss. The participants also showed a preference towards medium intensity neutral photographs in relation to pleasent medium- intensity photographs.