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Cognitive biases to healthy and unhealthy food words predict change in BMI [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The current study explored the predictive value of cognitive biases to food cues (assessed by emotional Stroop and dot probe tasks) on weight change over a 1-year period.
Baumeister   +44 more
core   +1 more source

Behavioural responding to concealed information: Examining the role of relevance orienting

open access: yesPsychologica Belgica, 2005
The concealed information test uses physiological responses to assess whether someone possesses information. The theory of this test holds that enhanced responding to concealed information is based upon memory, orienting and attention.
Bruno Verschuere   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efficacy of attention bias modification via smartphones in a large population sample

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2022
Negative affective biases are a key feature of anxiety and depression that uphold and promote negative mood. Bias modification aims to reduce these biases using computerized training, but shows mixed success and has not been tested at scale.
Alysha Chelliah, Oliver Robinson
doaj   +1 more source

Attentional biases for food stimuli in external eaters: Possible mechanism for stress-induced eating? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
External eaters reportedly increase snack intake when stressed, which could be due to an attentional shift towards food stimuli. Attentional biases for food stimuli were tested in high and low external eaters in stress and control conditions, using a ...
Boon   +24 more
core   +2 more sources

Is It Possible to Train the Focus on Positive and Negative Parts of One’s Own Body? A Pilot Randomized Controlled Study on Attentional Bias Modification Training

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Dysfunctional body- and shape-related attentional biases are involved in the etiology and maintenance of eating disorders (ED). Various studies suggest that women, particularly those with ED diagnoses, focus on negatively evaluated parts of their own ...
Nicole Engel   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Peer Victimization Influences Attention Processing Beyond the Effects of Childhood Maltreatment by Caregivers

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
BackgroundDifferent types of maltreatment (emotional, physical, and sexual) lead to distortions in emotion and attention processing. The present study investigated whether the experience of peer victimization in childhood and adolescence has an ...
Benjamin Iffland, Frank Neuner
doaj   +1 more source

Reduced attentional blink for alcohol-related stimuli in heavy social drinkers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Researchers have used various paradigms to show that attentional biases for substance-related stimuli are an important feature of addictive behaviours. However, it is not clear whether these attentional biases occur at the level of encoding or at later ...
De Houwer, Jan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The association between negative attention biases and symptoms of depression in a community sample of adolescents [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2015
Adolescence is a vulnerable time for the onset of depression. Recent evidence from adult studies suggests not only that negative attention biases are correlated with symptoms of depression, but that reducing negative attention biases through training can
Belinda Platt   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

What checkers actually check: an eye tracking study of inhibitory control and working memory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
<p>Background - Not only is compulsive checking the most common symptom in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) with an estimated prevalence of 50–80% in patients, but approximately ~15% of the general population reveal subclinical checking ...
Ben Harkin   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

No-onset looming motion guides spatial attention [PDF]

open access: yes
These 6 experiments explored the ability of moving random dot patterns to attract attention, as measured by a simple probe-detection task. Each trial began with random motion (i.e., dots linearly moved in random directions).
Lleras, Alejandro, von Mühlenen, Adrian
core   +1 more source

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