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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Attentional Biases"”.
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Attentional biases in post traumatic stress disorder and following acquired brain injury
Background: Attentional biases for trauma-relevant information are consideredto be a feature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, there has beenno systematic review of the published literature into attentional biases across arange of experimental paradigms.Methods: A systematic search …
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Internal and External Attentional Biases in Social Anxiety: The Effect of Effortful Control
Two cognitive processes have been proposed to play a role in social anxiety: self-focused attention and threat perception bias. Mansell, Clark, and Ehlers (2003) devised a novel dot-probe paradigm to simultaneously measure on-line attention to internal and external events among socially anxious …
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Attentional biases and PTSD symptomology in victims of sexual assault and motor vehicle accidents
<p>While the field of change detection and attentional biases has become an increasingly popular area of study and much is already known about Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), very little research has been done integrating these two areas. In the present study, we chose to investigate two …
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The Impact of Expertise in Archery on the Attentional Biases of Perceptual and Representational Pseudoneglect
Turnbull & McGeorge (1998) asked a group of participants if they had bumped into anything recently and if so, on what side? Results reflected a trend towards bumping on the right. This tendency to bump into objects on the right has since been observed in a naturalistic setting (Nicholls, Loftus, …
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Food attentional biases and adiposity: are energy intake and external eating mediators of this relationship?
… United States. Some evidence suggests that food attentional bias, or the tendency to automatically direct attention toward food-related stimuli in the environment, may contribute to the development of obesity in susceptible individuals. This study hypothesized that (1) food attentional bias would …
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Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression: A Longitudinal Study using Eye-gaze Tracking to Study Attentional Biases in Never Depressed, Non-Relapsed, and Relapsed Individuals
Cognitive models of depression propose that attentional biases are an important cognitive vulnerability in those with a history of depression (e.g., Gotlib & Joormann, 2010; Yiend, 2010; Beck & Haigh, 2014). This study prospectively examined attentional biases in never and previously depressed …
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RESTING-STATE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY CORRELATES OF ATTENTIONAL BIAS IN AN EMOTIONAL FREE VIEWING PARADIGM: AN EYE-TRACKING INVESTIGATION
… affective disorders display altered patterns of attentional engagement (hypervigilance or maintenance) with external stimuli; referred to as attentional biases. To date, the extent to which underlying neural mechanisms drive attentional biases, both in affective disorders as well as unselected …
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Attentional Bias Toward Pain-Related Pictorial Stimuli Among Individuals With Migraine Following Negative Mood Induction
… provides support for the role of selective attentional biases toward threat-related stimuli among chronic pain patients. However, the few studies to examine the role of selective attentional biases in migraine demonstrate mixed findings, and the exact nature of this relationship remains …
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Body Image, Fear of Fat, and Attentional Bias for Thin and Non-thin Bodies
<p>The study examined the impact of Attentional Bias Modification (ABM) on body image and fear of fat in college women. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: an ABM condition or a non-ABM placebo condition in viewing a series of thin and non-thin body stimuli. Extending …
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Traumatic life event exposure and attenuated psychosis: Symptom specificity and explanatory mechanisms
… psychosis. Second, this project tested whether attentional biases, present in samples with trauma histories and experiencing attenuated forms of psychosis, were similar within both populations. Third, this project examined multiple putative mechanisms influencing the association between TLEs and …
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Tracing the Dynamics of Value-Based Attention: from Generalization to Disengagement
… salient—a phenomenon known as Value-Modulated Attentional Capture (VMAC). While such value-driven biases are typically adaptive, facilitating the prioritization of motivationally relevant information, they may become maladaptive when they persist beyond the context in which they were learned. …
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A comparison of attention bias paradigms related to insomnia
Attentional bias to sleep related stimuli by poor sleepers has been reported as a factor in initiating and maintaining sleep disturbance. In this study, three paradigms (Flicker, Posner, and Stroop) were used in comparison to further investigate the role of attentional biases in Primary Insomnia. …
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MINDFULNESS, SELF-COMPASSION AND THREAT RELATED ATTENTIONAL BIAS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL ANXIETY AND LONELINESS IN LATE ADOLESCENT COLLEGE STUDENTS.
… Given the focus of contemplative practices on attentional awareness and control, this study examined whether mindfulness and self-compassion may contribute to decreased levels of anxiety and loneliness, in part, by influencing attentional mechanisms that may lower threat bias. The specificity …
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Eye-Gaze Pattern Analysis as a Key to Understanding Co-occurring Social Anxiety within Autism Spectrum Disorder
… eye gaze patterns may help determine if the attentional biases often reported in people with SAD also operate in those with ASD and co-occurring social anxiety. This study sought to assess the influence of social anxiety on gaze patterns in adults with ASD. An exploratory aim was to better …
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Effect of Attention Retraining on Pathological Eating Behaviors and Body Dissatisfaction
… One such mechanism may be the construct of attentional bias. Research suggests that individuals that engage in PEB or have high levels of body dissatisfaction exhibit an attentional bias toward negative body weight/shape and food cues. Attention retraining has been found to be effective in …
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The influence of cognitive biases on psychophysiological vulnerability to stress
… (CBM) techniques improve maladaptive biases through implicitly-based association learning, with induced positive biases buffering the future perception of stress. Six experimental studies investigated the next stage of this link to bolster and significantly enhance the clinical …
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Investigation of attentional bias in obsessive-compulsive disorder
… therapeutic intervention is the reduction of an attentional bias for anxiogenic stimuli. Salkovskis’ (1999) model of OCD suggests that an attentional bias for symptom specific to OCD symptoms plays a role in the creation and maintenance of symptoms. However, the previous literature exploring …
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Exploring representations of, and attitudes towards, snakes in online media: an ethnozoological approach
… programs. Vicarious learning can impact human attentional biases and fear acquisition associated with snakes; the portrayals of snakes across different media sources might impact the potential for human hostility and conservation resistance or acceptance. I investigated the portrayals of snakes …
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