Social media 'addiction': The absence of an attentional bias to social media stimuli

K Thomson, SC Hunter, SH Butler… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2021 - akjournals.com
social media users show an attentional bias towards social media related stimuli, and by
proxy addiction related changes to the brain's neurochemistry, and whether levels of social

Attentional bias is associated with negative emotions in problematic users of social media as measured by a dot-probe task

J Zhao, Z Zhou, B Sun, X Zhang, L Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… The purpose of this study was to investigate whether problematic users of SM display
attentional bias (AB) toward SM-related cues, as well as the relationships between AB, the severity …

An integrative network approach to social anxiety disorder: The complex dynamic interplay among attentional bias for threat, attentional control, and symptoms

A Heeren, RJ McNally - Journal of anxiety disorders, 2016 - Elsevier
network models of relations among measures of attentional components and symptoms of
social … In the present study, we computed weighted and directed networks to investigate the …

The role of attentional bias toward negative emotional information and social anxiety in problematic social media use

J Zhao, Z Zhou, Z Lin, B Sun, X Wu… - Journal of Psychosocial …, 2023 - journals.healio.com
… of their social networks and make new friends without time or geographical restrictions.
However, irrational and excessive use of social media can result in problematic social media use …

Bored with boredom? Trait boredom predicts internet addiction through the mediating role of attentional bias toward social networks

L Cannito, I Ceccato, E Annunzi, A Bortolotti… - Frontiers in Human …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… In the current study, attentional bias toward social networks has been identified as a …
experiences boredom, their visual attention is more likely to be drawn to social media-related cues, …

Exploring the associations between social media addiction and depression: Attentional bias as a mediator and socio-emotional competence as a moderator

W Xiao, J Peng, S Liao - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Social networks have … that social media addicts have an attentional bias toward emotion
valence information, which may play a mediating role in the relationship between social media …

Does attention bias modification improve attentional control? A double-blind randomized experiment with individuals with social anxiety disorder

A Heeren, C Mogoaşe, RJ McNally, A Schmitz… - Journal of anxiety …, 2015 - Elsevier
… People with anxiety disorders often exhibit an attentional bias for threat. Attention bias
modification (ABM) procedure may reduce this bias, thereby diminishing anxiety symptoms. In …

Identifying attentional bias and emotional response after appearance-related stimuli exposure

A Cho, SM Kwak, JH Lee - … , Behavior, and Social Networking, 2013 - liebertpub.com
… We identified attentional biases and negative emotional responses following exposure to
body stimuli. Female university students were divided into two groups based on their use of …

Investigating the attentional bias and information processing mechanism of mobile phone addicts towards emotional information

Y Hu, J Guo, M Jou, S Zhou, D Wang, P Maguire… - Computers in Human …, 2020 - Elsevier
attentional bias towards negative emotional information, manifested as an alert-maintenance
model, meaning that attention … interventions geared towards attentional bias training for …

Attentional bias to social media cues: an eye tracking study

AJ Marshall - 2021 - figshare.utas.edu.au
… whether attentional bias also plays a role in social media … behaviour have an attentional
bias towards addiction related cues … in internet users with problematic use of social networking