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Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications
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Research conducted within the general paradigm of cognitive bias modification (CBM) reveals that emotional biases in attention, interpretation, and memory are not merely associated with emotional disorders but contribute to them. After briefly describing research on both emotional biases and their modification, the authors examine similarities between CBM paradigms and older experimental paradigms used in research on learning and memory. The techniques and goals of CBM research are compared with other approaches to understanding cognition–emotion interactions. From a functional perspective, the CBM tradition reminds us to use experimental tools to evaluate assumptions about clinical phenomena and, more generally, about causal relationships between cognitive processing and emotion.
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Cognitive bias modification (CBM) research shows that emotional biases in attention, interpretation, and memory can be experimentally modified, and that these changes can alter later emotional reactivity. The review links CBM to older learning/memory paradigms and argues that CBM is a general experimental tool for testing causal cognition-emotion assumptions.
Key findings
- Attention training can shift attentional bias and emotional vulnerability: participants trained to attend threat reported more distress after insoluble problems than those trained to avoid threat, while repeated benign attention training reduced rated work stress and lowered cortisol in telemarketers.
- Interpretation training can change how novel ambiguity is resolved and can affect emotion: negative training increased anxiety and negative interpretations, whereas positive training reduced worry, social anxiety, and depressed mood; effects persisted to the next day and influenced distress while viewing accident videos.
- Memory modification is less developed: only a few experiments have established biased memories, and five memory-modification experiments failed to find or did not assess emotional consequences; one study found benign training proactively interfered with controlled recollection of negative resolutions.
- CBM is framed as related to transfer-appropriate processing, desirable difficulties, and associative learning; far-transfer effects to emotional challenges are central but are not always obtained.
Methods
- Design: narrative review of experiments within the CBM tradition, comparing CBM paradigms with older learning and memory paradigms such as counterconditioning and transfer-appropriate processing.
- Data or sample: reviewed experiments were conducted with nonclinical volunteers unless participants were selected for special characteristics such as emotional vulnerability or clinical condition.
- Main analysis: qualitative synthesis of attention, interpretation, and memory modification studies, plus discussion of mechanisms, automaticity versus cognitive control, mood-cognition research, appraisal theory, and cognitive behavior therapy.
Limitations
- The paper states that only a few experiments have been performed to establish biased memories, that five memory-modification experiments failed to find or did not assess emotional consequences, that far transfer is not always obtained, and that it is too soon to know the extent and manner of controlled versus automatic processes in CBM.
- The paper also notes that self-reports about cognitive procedures are usually not reliable and that there has been little neuroimaging research on cognitive control in bias modification.
- Evident from the text: as a narrative review, it does not report a systematic search strategy or quantitative synthesis.
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“Relative to nonanxious control groups, anxious individuals are more likely to remember and report ambiguous events in terms of their more threatening meanings.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Interpretation bias
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- Not checked yetcites Eysenck, Mogg, May, Richards, & Mathews, 1991
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“Eight sessions of positive training led to greater decreases on a questionnaire assessing social anxiety than in the control group.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Interpretation training
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“However, as is the case with depression, evidence for memory biases in anxiety is found when other cognitive characteristics of anxiety are taken into account (such as imagery-based distortions in the recall of social scenarios; Hertel, Brozovich, Joormann, & Gotlib, 2008; see Hirsch, Clark, & Mathews, 2006).”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Memory bias
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- Not checked yetcites Hertel, Brozovich, Joormann, & Gotlib, 2008
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“In one version, participants were trained to make positive interpretations with or without self-imagery, and only the imagery-based training was effective in protecting against negative mood (Holmes, Lang, & Shah, 2009; see also Blackwell & Holmes, 2010).”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Interpretation training
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- Not checked yetcites Holmes, Lang, & Shah, 2009
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“Attention training has also been shown to have beneficial effects for participants suffering from clinical anxiety states, such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder and social phobia (for a meta-analysis, see Hakamata et al., 2010).”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Attention training
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“In a related clinical study, similar training reduced worry in patients suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Hayes, Hirsch, Krebs, & Mathews, 2010).”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Interpretation training
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- Not checked yetcites Hayes, Hirsch, Krebs, & Mathews, 2010
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“Adapted versions of interpretation training have also been found to ameliorate or prevent depressed mood.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Interpretation training
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“compared with a more abstract, ruminative condition, a new concrete and experiential training condition effectively reduced depressed mood (Watkins, Baeyens, & Read, 2009).”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Interpretation training
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- Not checked yetcites Watkins, Baeyens, & Read, 2009
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“The same is true of practice in interpreting ambiguous events in a relatively benign manner.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Attention training
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“In participants complaining of excessive worry, a single session of practice in selecting the benign meaning of emotionally ambiguous words and descriptions reduced later negative thought intrusions, in contrast to control participants who accessed benign and threatening meanings equally often (Hirsch, Hayes, & Mathews, 2009).”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Interpretation training
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- Not checked yetcites Hirsch, Hayes, & Mathews, 2009
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“those who are prone to anxiety or depression are more likely than others to interpret ambiguity in a negative way, attend more to emotionally negative cues, and selectively recall negative information (Mathews & MacLeod, 2005).”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites Mathews & MacLeod, 2005
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“Overall, emotional stimuli tend to capture attention more than do neutral ones, but whereas this tendency in healthy individuals applies as much (and sometimes more) to positive as to negative cues, in those prone to anxiety or depression, attention is more likely to be captured by negative cues, particularly when such cues are related to individual emotional concerns.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Attentional bias
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“There is also evidence (albeit somewhat less consistent) that depression is associated with negative interpretations of emotional ambiguity.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Interpretation bias
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- Not checked yetcites Lawson & MacLeod, 1999
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“Compared with the positive group, participants allocated to practicing negative resolutions reported feeling more anxious and made more negative interpretations of the novel test descriptions (Mathews & Mackintosh, 2000).”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Interpretation training
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- Not checked yetcites Mathews & Mackintosh, 2000
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“In contrast to a control condition in which participants searched for flowers, repeated sessions of training not only reduced rated work stress in telemarketers but also led to lower cortisol levels, an index of emotional distress.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Attention training
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- Not checked yetcites Dandeneau, Baldwin, Baccus, Sakellaropoulo, and Pruessner (2007)
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“The key finding was that nonanxious controls were more likely to endorse nonthreatening interpretations, whereas currently anxious individuals were equally likely to endorse threatening and nonthreatening interpretations.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Interpretation bias
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“Whereas nondepressed individuals are more likely to remember positive self-descriptive words and happy faces, those prone to depression are relatively more likely to remember negative selfdescriptive words and sad faces.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Memory bias
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- Not checked yetcites Mathews & MacLeod, 2005
- Not checked yetcites Matt et al., 1992
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“CBM experiments have demonstrated that cognitive biases can indeed be modified and that the induced changes influence subsequent emotional reactivity.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Abstract
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“In summary, as with attention, practice in interpreting emotional ambiguity in a more positive (or negative) manner influences how novel ambiguous exemplars are interpreted and can also reduce (or increase) negative emotional states or the distress caused by stressful events.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Interpretation training
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“anxious individuals are typically faster to respond to targets appearing in locations just vacated by threatening rather than neutral cues, whereas nonanxious control participants show the reverse pattern (MacLeod, Mathews, & Tata, 1986; meta-analysis by Bar-Haim, Lamy, Pergamin, Bakermans-Kranenburg, & van IJzendoorn, 2007).”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Attentional bias
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- Not checked yetcites MacLeod, Mathews, & Tata, 1986
- Not checked yetcites Bar-Haim et al., 2007
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“Compared with the benign or positive processing style that characterizes healthy people, those prone to anxiety and depression are more likely to attend to negative or threatening cues, resolve ambiguity in negative ways, and selectively remember negative events.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > In summary
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“Both involve direct attempts to modify cognitive processes believed to underlie emotional distress, and both employ systematic exposure to the events that trigger distress.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Relation to Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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- Rests on an assumption: In CBT, exposure to evocative events is designed to reduce emotional reactions via extinction or to collect evidence against false beliefs by showing that anticipated catastrophic consequences do not occur.
- Rests on an assumption: CBT also targets inappropriate cognitive content, but here the usual means of change is to directly challenge the reportable thoughts believed to maintain distress.
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“The evidence discussed so far strongly suggests that cognitive biases are malleable and that modifying them can have consequences for memory and emotional vulnerability.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > In summary
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“Beyond strictly clinical concerns, research paradigms gathered together under the rubric of cognitive bias modification are nothing more and nothing less than tools to test assumptions, often initially unspecified, about interactions between cognitive and emotional processes.”
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“As with modification of attention to threat, practice in the positive resolution of ambiguity can transfer to new ambiguous situations and lead to subsequent changes in affective reactivity to potentially emotional novel events.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > In summary
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“In contrast, CBM involves repeated trials that target processes typically not available to conscious report, and as we have argued earlier, participants are not necessarily aware of the resultant changes.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Relation to Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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“Both involve direct attempts to modify cognitive processes believed to underlie emotional distress, and both employ systematic exposure to the events that trigger distress.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Relation to Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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- Rests on an assumption: In CBT, exposure to evocative events is designed to reduce emotional reactions via extinction or to collect evidence against false beliefs by showing that anticipated catastrophic consequences do not occur.
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“Lapse and relapse, in which the original contingencies dominate to guide behavior, tend to occur if features of the context revert to earlier conditions (the renewal effect) or if the original significant outcomes occur noncontingently (reinstatement).”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Associative learning
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- Not checked yetcites Bouton, 2000
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“Unsurprisingly, the modification of cognitive biases relies on tried and true principles of experimental psychology.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Basic Mechanisms Underlying CBM
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“Compared with other types of CBM, however, only a few experiments have been performed to establish biased memories, and these experiments mainly have modified interpretation biases in ways that produce distorted memories.”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Procedures for changing memory
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“Depressed participants achieved such forgetting but only when thought substitutes had been used to aid suppression practice (unlike controls who could forget without these aids).”
§ Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications > Procedures for changing memory
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- Not checked yetcites Joormann, Hertel, LeMoult, & Gotlib, 2009
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Cognitive characteristics play a part in creating emotional resilience or emotional vulnerability.
“A fundamental assumption underlying cognitive therapy for emotional disorders and cognitive appraisal theories of emotion is that cognitive characteristics play a part in creating emotional resilience or emotional vulnerability.”
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The same fundamental principles underlying CBM are likely to apply across a wide range of specific applications.
“Until we learn otherwise, we assume that the same fundamental principles are likely to apply across a wide range of specific applications.”
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The same cognitive procedures are involved in stressful transfer tasks as in training, despite differing contexts.
“the same cognitive procedures are assumed to be involved but the contexts differ substantially from those presented during training.”
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Students forget learned material after tests, and anxious or depressed individuals revert to well-practiced biases outside therapy.
“Unfortunately, students often forget what they have learned in college classes once the test has been taken, and anxious or depressed individuals easily revert to well-practiced biases outside the therapeutic context.”
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Self-reports about cognitive procedures are usually not reliable.
“self-reports about cognitive procedures are usually not reliable.”
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The lateral frontal cortex is implicated in intentional control.
“Because the lateral frontal cortex is implicated in intentional control, this finding might argue against exclusively automatic effects.”
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Appraisal theories have generally been tested by showing that the self-reported relevance of an event is a good predictor of emotional response, and not by modifying processes assumed to contribute to appraisal but likely inaccessible to conscious report.
“Appraisal theories have generally been tested by showing that the self-reported relevance of an event is a good predictor of emotional response and not by modifying processes assumed to contribute to appraisal but likely inaccessible to conscious report, as in CBM experiments.”
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In CBT, exposure to evocative events is designed to reduce emotional reactions via extinction or to collect evidence against false beliefs by showing that anticipated catastrophic consequences do not occur.
“In CBT, exposure to evocative events is designed to reduce emotional reactions via extinction (sometimes referred to as habituation) or to collect evidence against false beliefs by showing that anticipated catastrophic consequences do not occur.”
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In CBM, training and control conditions sometimes involve a similar extent of exposure to potential threat cues.
“In CBM, by contrast, extinction due to exposure is not thought to be the agent of change; in fact, training and control conditions sometimes involve a similar extent of exposure to potential threat cues.”
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CBT also targets inappropriate cognitive content, but here the usual means of change is to directly challenge the reportable thoughts believed to maintain distress.
“To be sure, CBT also targets inappropriate cognitive content, but here the usual means of change is to directly challenge the reportable thoughts believed to maintain distress.”
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“In addition, ABM threat-avoidance training studies often use similar tasks to both modify AB and assess AB change (e.g., probe-based spatial attention tasks are used in both ABM threatavoidance training and AB assessment), and it is therefore unclear whether effects of training transfer to other AB measures or related cognitive functions [7,82].”
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“In addition, ABM threat-avoidance training studies often use similar tasks to both modify AB and assess AB change (e.g., probe-based spatial attention tasks are used in both ABM threatavoidance training and AB assessment), and it is therefore unclear whether effects of training transfer to other AB measures or related cognitive functions [7,82].”
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- Hertel, P. T., & Mathews, A.
- Affiliations
- Trinity University (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
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- Hertel, Paula T.
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- Hertel, Paula T.
- Venue
- Perspectives on Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2011-10-14
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 521-536
- ISSN
- 1745-6916 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-6924
- OpenAlex
- W1995460541
- Cited by
- 321
- References
- 120
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 29 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 34 · 2015: 34 · 2014: 25 · 2013: 31 · 2012: 15
- FWCI
- 29.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Perspectives on Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Commons - Trinity University (Trinity University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
- Keywords
- cognitive bias modification, emotional bias, attentional bias, interpretation bias, memory bias, emotion and cognition, emotional disorders
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