Cognitive theories of depression posit that negative schemata constrain how emotional information is attended to, processed and recollected (Beck et al., 1979). Numerous studies have demonstrated an association between acute depression and preferential processing of negative information and/or impaired processing of positive emotional information (Bradley et al, 1995; Gilboa-Schechtman et al., 2002; Gur et al., 1992; Peckham et al., 2010; Ridout et al., 2003; Surguladze et al., 2004) which persists into periods of remission (Anderson et al., 2011; Bhagwagar et al, 2004; Hayward, et al., 2005). Emerging evidence also suggests that these behavioural abnormalities are present prior to the onset of illness and therefore reflect a trait vulnerability marker for depression. For example, Chan and colleagues (Chan, et al., 2007) reported that high neuroticism (a recognised risk factor for depression) was associated with reduced latency to classify negative vs. positive personality descriptors, reduced positive memory intrusion at subsequent recall and reduced capacity to recognise happy facial expressions as compared to individuals with low levels of neuroticism. We have also shown that late chronotype, also recognised as a risk factor for depression, is associated with increased capacity to recognise sad vs happy facial expressions (Berdynaj et al., 2016; Horne, Marr-Phillips, Jawaid, Gibson, & Norbury, 2017). Less well understood is whether bias towards emotionally positive stimuli relates to resilience. The concept of resilience can be thought of as a stress coping ability with positive adaptation and outcomes in the face of adversities (Connor & Davidson, 2003) and should act as a buffer against the harmful effects of future stressors. In support of this notion Sherrin and colleagues (Sheerin et al., 2017) in a longitudinal study reported that higher resilience was a protective factor against future internalising psychopathology. Moreover, using the dot-probe task to assess individual differences in attentional bias towards happy or angry facial expressions Thoern et al., (Thoern, Grueschow, Ehlert, Ruff, & Kleim, 2016) observed that healthy participants with a greater attentional bias towards happy faces reported higher trait resilience. This finding may have implications for a number of stress-related disorders and suggests that increasing the tendency to attend to emotionally positive stimuli could render individuals more resilient. However, Thoern and colleagues did not take into account individual differences in neuroticism, circadian preference or depressive symptomatology (three recognised risk factors for depression). The aims of the current proposal, therefore, are to: 1) replicate the findings of Thoern and colleagues, i.e. that increased attention to positive emotional stimuli predicts trait resilience, 2) extend this work to include emotion recognition, and 3) explore the interaction between risk factors for depression, resilience and attentional bias/emotion recognition