Playing Closer: Using Virtual Reality to Measure Approach Bias of Internet Gaming Disorder [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Playing online games is gradually becoming mainstream entertainment, but some people may develop Internet gaming disorder (IGD). Like other behavioral addictive diseases, one of the main characteristics of IGD is a craving for games, which also makes ...
Wen Wei +4 more
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Evidence for the embodiment of the automatic approach bias [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Tendencies of approach and avoidance seem to be a universal characteristic of humans. Specifically, individuals are faster in avoiding than in approaching negative stimuli and they are faster in approaching than in avoiding positive stimuli.
Johannes Solzbacher +5 more
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Efficacy of approach bias modification as an add-on to smoking cessation treatment: study protocol for a randomized-controlled double-blind trial [PDF]
Trials, 2022 Background Although effective treatments for smoking cessation are available, long-term abstinence is the exception rather than the norm. Accordingly, there is a need for novel interventions that potentially improve clinical outcome.
Charlotte E. Wittekind +6 more
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A cross-cultural fMRI investigation of cannabis approach bias in individuals with cannabis use disorder [PDF]
Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2023 Introduction: As cannabis policies and attitudes become more permissive, it is crucial to examine how the legal and social environment influence neurocognitive mechanisms underlying cannabis use disorder (CUD).
Lauren Kuhns +3 more
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Protocol for the methamphetamine approach-avoidance training (MAAT) trial, a randomised controlled trial of personalised approach bias modification for methamphetamine use disorder [PDF]
Trials, 2021 Background Globally, methamphetamine use has increased in prevalence in recent years. In Australia, there has been a dramatic increase in numbers of people seeking treatment, including residential rehabilitation, for methamphetamine use disorder (MUD ...
Joshua B. B. Garfield +12 more
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Promoting smoking abstinence in smokers willing to quit smoking through virtual reality-approach bias retraining: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Trials, 2020 Background Automatic processes to approach smoking-related cues have been repeatedly linked to smoking status, intensity of smoking, and cigarette craving.
Alla Machulska +7 more
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Combining approach bias modification with working memory training during inpatient alcohol withdrawal: an open-label pilot trial of feasibility and acceptability [PDF]
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2019 Background According to contemporary neurocognitive models, addiction is maintained by the biasing of information-processing and decision-making systems towards relatively automatic, impulsive, reward-seeking responses to drug-related stimuli, and away ...
Victoria Manning +6 more
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Cognitive Biases and Addictive Disorders: A Bibliometric Review
Psychiatry International, 2022 Introduction: Since the early 2000s, there have been extensive investigations into cognitive biases in addictive disorders. The advances in the field have led to the discovery that cognitive bias exists in substance disorders and could in turn be ...
Melvyn W. B. Zhang
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Introduction: Alcohol approach bias, the tendency to automatically move toward alcohol cues, has been observed in people who drink heavily. However, surprisingly, some alcohol-dependent patients demonstrate an alcohol avoidance bias.
Hugh Piercy +5 more
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Effects of go/no-go training on food-related action tendencies, liking and choice
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Inhibitory control training effects on behaviour (e.g. ‘healthier’ food choices) can be driven by changes in affective evaluations of trained stimuli, and theoretical models indicate that changes in action tendencies may be a complementary mechanism.
Loukia Tzavella +11 more
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