Limited generalisation of changes in attentional bias following attentional bias modification with the visual probe task

B Van Bockstaele, E Salemink, SM Bögels… - Cognition and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Although attentional bias modification (ABM) can change anxiety, recent studies failed to
replicate such effects, possibly because the visual probe ABM failed to induce changes in …

Investigating the effects of inhibition training on attentional bias change: A simple Bayesian approach

S Onie, L Notebaert, P Clarke, SB Most - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Attention bias modification (ABM), in which participants are trained to direct attention away
from negative information, has been shown to reduce anxiety. However, such findings have …

Barking up the wrong tree in attentional bias modification? Comparing the sensitivity of four tasks to attentional biases

Ó Sigurjónsdóttir, S Sigurðardóttir, AS Björnsson… - Journal of Behavior …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background and objectives Attentional bias modification (ABM) is a potentially exciting new
development in the treatment of anxiety disorders. However, reported therapeutic benefits …

Impact of the temporal stability of preexistent attentional bias for threat on its alteration through attention bias modification

A Heeren, P Philippot, EHW Koster - Journal of Behavior Therapy and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Attention bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce attentional bias for threat (AB),
thereby diminishing anxiety symptoms. However, recent meta-analyses indicated mixed …

Explicitly guided attentional bias modification promotes attentional disengagement from negative stimuli.

Y Nishiguchi, K Takano, Y Tanno - Emotion, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 15 (6) of Emotion
(see record 2015-53689-001). In this article, there was an error in the first paragraph of …

Temporal dynamics of anxiety-related attentional bias: is affective context a missing piece of the puzzle?

JA Cox, BK Christensen, SC Goodhew - Cognition and Emotion, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Previous research has demonstrated that anxious individuals attend to negative emotional
information at the expense of other information. This is commonly referred to as attentional …

Validation of a novel attentional bias modification task: The future may be in the cards

L Notebaert, PJF Clarke, B Grafton… - Behaviour Research and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Attentional bias modification (ABM) is a promising therapeutic tool aimed at changing
patterns of attentional selectivity associated with heightened anxiety. A number of studies …

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 …

Attentional bias modification in reducing test anxiety vulnerability: a randomized controlled trial

W Cai, Y Pan, H Chai, Y Cui, J Yan, W Dong, G Deng - Bmc Psychiatry, 2018 - Springer
Background A tendency to selectively process a threat to positive information may be
involved in the etiology of anxiety disorders. The aim of this study is to examine whether …

Negative effects of an alternating-bias training aimed at attentional flexibility: A single session study

TE Gladwin - Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Attentional Bias Modification (ABM) usually aims to induce automatic biases
directed toward or away from certain stimulus categories. An alternative approach, termed …