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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"attentional bias modification"”.
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Attentional Bias Modification: An Examination of Novel Training Contingencies and Stimulus Pairs
… a form of treatment for anxiety and depression, Attentional Bias Modification (ABM) treatment, has increased exponentially. ABM has been employed in research and clinical settings with varying levels of success due to vast heterogeneity among studies. The primary aims of the present study were to …
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Can We Be Trained to Eat Healthy? The Effects of an Attentional Bias Modification Program on Eating Behavior
… food consumption) through mechanisms such as attentional bias. Attentional bias modification (ABM) programs have been developed to train individuals to either attend to or avoid certain food cues in the environment, yet research in this area is underdeveloped. The purpose of this dissertation …
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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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The impact of modifying attentional bias on vulnerability to pain
… in the internal and external environment - “attentional bias” - is thought to confer vulnerability to pain. The current thesis tested this putative mechanism by modifying the bias using the visual-probe task (attentional bias modification; ABM) and examining effects of this experimental …
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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 …