In this article, Mahdi Mazidi and Ben Grafton (University of Western Australia), and Julia Michalek and Jennifer Lau (Queen Mary University of London) provide expert commentaries on: Hertz-Palmor, N., Yosef, Y., Hallel, H., Bernat, I., & Lazarov, A. (2024). Exploring the ‘mood congruency’ hypothesis of attention allocation–An eye-tracking study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 347, 619-629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.12.004