Behavioral and ERP measures of attentional bias to threat in the dot-probe task: Poor reliability and lack of correlation with anxiety [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The dot-probe task is often considered a gold standard in the field for investigating attentional bias to threat. However, serious issues with the task have been raised.
Emily S. Kappenman +3 more
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The Study of Security Priming on Avoidant Attentional Biases: Combining Microsaccadic Eye-Movement Measurement With a Dot-Probe Task [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Microsaccades are small fixational eye movements that have shown to index covert attentional shifts. The present experiment combined microsaccades with performance measures from a dot-probe task to study influences of attachment security priming on the ...
Rebecca Louise Mellor, Elia Psouni
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Exploring attentional bias towards threatening faces in chimpanzees using the dot probe task. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Primates have evolved to rapidly detect and respond to danger in their environment. However, the mechanisms involved in attending to threatening stimuli are not fully understood. The dot-probe task is one of the most widely used experimental paradigms to
Duncan A Wilson, Masaki Tomonaga
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A Pictorial Dot Probe Task to Assess Food-Related Attentional Bias in Youth With and Without Obesity: Overview of Indices and Evaluation of Their Reliability [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Several versions of the dot probe detection task are frequently used to assess maladaptive attentional processes associated with a broad range of psychopathology and health behavior, including eating behavior and weight.
Leentje Vervoort +8 more
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Aging Impairs Disengagement From Negative Words in a Dot Probe Task [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Age differences in emotional processes have been of great interest. Previous studies using the dot probe task show that older adults can be more influenced by negative emotionally valenced faces than younger adults.
Christine E. Talbot +2 more
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Euthymic patients with predominantly manic polarity avoid happy faces in a dot probe task [PDF]
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, 2022 Background Some studies suggest a mood-congruent attentional bias in bipolar patients. However, for euthymic patients, especially in dependence on the predominant polarity, there is little and inconsistent data. A clearer understanding of emotion-related
Martina Wenzel +3 more
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Effect of attentional bias modification on social media addiction: a visual dot-probe task [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionSocial media addiction (SMA) negatively affects individuals’ physical wellbeing and mental health. The attentional bias (AB) toward stimuli associated with social media may significantly contribute to the development of SMA.
Jin Zhao +6 more
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The human body odor compound androstadienone leads to anger-dependent effects in an emotional Stroop but not dot-probe task using human faces. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The androgen derivative androstadienone is a substance found in human sweat and thus is a putative human chemosignal. Androstadienone has been studied with respect to effects on mood states, attractiveness ratings, physiological and neural activation ...
Jonas Hornung +4 more
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Avoidance of Bereavement-Related Stimuli in Chinese Individuals Experiencing Prolonged Grief: Evidence from a Dot-Probe Task [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Background: Attentional bias refers to a preference for (e.g., vigilance) or a shifting away (e.g., avoidance) of one’s focus with respect to specific stimuli.
Meng Yu +9 more
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Attentional Bias Is Associated with Negative Emotions in Problematic Users of Social Media as Measured by a Dot-Probe Task [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Xinyuan Zhang, Shimin Fu
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