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Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals
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Attention bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce anxiety by reducing attention bias (AB) to threat; however, effects on anxiety and AB are variable. This review examines 34 studies assessing effects of multisession-ABM on both anxiety and AB in high-anxious individuals. Methods include ABM-threat-avoidance (promoting attention-orienting away from threat), ABM-positive-search (promoting explicit, goal-directed attention-search for positive/nonthreat targets among negative/threat distractors), and comparison conditions (e.g., control-attention training combining threat-cue exposure and attention-task practice without AB-modification). Findings indicate anxiety reduction often occurs during both ABM-threat-avoidance and control-attention training; anxiety reduction is not consistently accompanied by AB reduction; anxious individuals often show no pretraining AB in orienting toward threat; and ABM-positive-search training appears promising in reducing anxiety. Methodological and theoretical issues are discussed concerning ABM paradigms, comparison conditions, and AB assessment. ABM methods combining explicit goal-directed attention-search for nonthreat/positive information and effortful threat-distractor inhibition (promoting top-down cognitive control during threat-cue exposure) warrant further evaluation.
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This qualitative review of 34 multisession RCTs in high-anxious individuals finds that ABM-threat-avoidance training has inconsistent anxiolytic effects relative to control-attention training, and anxiety reduction often occurs without reduction in preexisting threat-related attention bias. ABM-positive-search training appears promising for reducing anxiety, but evidence is limited to two included studies.
Key findings
- In about two thirds of studies, ABM-threat-avoidance training was not more effective than comparison conditions in reducing anxiety; 8 studies found it superior to control-attention training, all experimenter-controlled, while 23 studies found no superiority (15 experimenter-controlled, 7 home-based, 1 assessing both settings).
- Anxiety symptoms often reduced during both ABM-threat-avoidance and control-attention training, sometimes with moderate-to-large effects and often without change in AB to threat.
- Most studies using standard visual-probe-task scores did not find pretraining AB in orienting toward threat in anxious individuals; anxiety reduction was not consistently accompanied by AB reduction.
- In two ABM-positive-search studies, anxiety reduction was greater than control or waitlist: 50% of completers versus 8% in control training were free of their principal anxiety disorder in Waters et al. (2013), and 42% versus 8% of waitlist control in Waters et al. (2015).
Methods
- Qualitative review; searched PsycInfo and Medline and checked reference lists for peer-reviewed English-language studies, identifying 34 studies published between 2008 and end of 2016 (33 publications, one describing two studies).
- Inclusion criteria: multisession ABM training aimed at modifying threat-related AB and anxiety; threat and nonthreat stimuli; high-anxious subclinical or clinical participants; RCT design; pre-post assessment of anxiety symptoms and AB. Review articles and studies combining ABM with interpretive bias modification were excluded.
- The review evaluated three predictions: greater anxiety reduction for ABM than comparison conditions, corresponding reduction in AB to threat, and pretraining AB to threat in anxious individuals; it distinguished ABM-threat-avoidance (32 studies) from ABM-positive-search (2 studies) and examined control conditions and AB measures.
Limitations
- The paper states that a limitation is the small number of ABM-positive-search studies that have assessed effects on both AB and anxiety in anxious individuals.
- The paper states that null pretraining AB findings must be interpreted cautiously because sample sizes tend to be modest, ABs are inferred indirectly from RT data, and RT-based AB measures have low reliability; it also notes dissemination bias, including publication bias and outcome-reporting bias.
- The paper states that most studies, but not all, lacked non-attention-training comparison conditions, and that interpretation of AB change is complicated by divergent AB measures and by many studies assessing AB with the same or similar probe-based task used for training, which may reflect task-specific rules rather than generalized change in AB to threat.
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“In addition, two studies unexpectedly found greater anxiety reduction during CON-attention-training than during ABM-threat-avoidance training in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Badura-Brack et al., 2015).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 1: Effect of ABM on anxiety
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“However, in most studies, ABM-threat-avoidance training was not more effective than CON-attention training in reducing anxiety between pre- and posttraining.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 1: Effect of ABM on anxiety
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“Two other studies, which also used the visual-probe task to both assess and modify AB, reported that anxiety reduction during ABM-threat-avoidance training was accompanied by reduction in within-session AB variability (change between beginning and end of each training session) rather than stable change in standard AB scores between pre- and posttraining”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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“anxiety reduction is not consistently accompanied by AB reduction;”
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“Second, anxiety reduction may occur during ABM training without AB reduction.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Abstract
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“about a third to a half of children with anxiety disorders were free of their principal anxiety disorder after ABM-positive-search training (50% of those completing ABM versus 8% in control training in Waters et al., 2013, and 42% of those completing ABM versus 8% of waitlist control in Waters et al., 2015).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 1: Effect of ABM on anxiety
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- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2013
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“In Shechner et al. (2014), children with anxiety disorders showed pretraining AB for disgust faces that reduced to no bias during both ABM and CON training.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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“Enock et al. (2014) assessed AB change on two tasks (visual-probe and spatial-cuing) and reported that AB reduced during ABM and CON training from no bias to avoidance of disgust faces in socially anxious adults only on the visual-probe assessment task.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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“In the other three studies, anxiety reduction occurred across all attention-training conditions (ABM, inverse-ABM, CON-attention-training; Boettcher et al., 2013; Heeren, Mogoase, McNally et al., 2015; McNally et al., 2013).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 1: Effect of ABM on anxiety
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- Not checked yetcites Boettcher et al., 2013
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“In Eldar et al. (2012), there was reduction in AB to threat during ABM-threat-avoidance but not CON-attention training in anxious children preselected for exhibiting AB towards threat”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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“Findings indicate anxiety reduction often occurs during both ABM-threat-avoidance and control-attention training;”
- Also stated in: § Prediction 1: Effect of ABM on anxiety · hedged
“Furthermore, in many of these studies, anxiety symptoms reduced irrespective of attention-training condition—that is, during both ABM-threat-avoidance and CON-attention training”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Abstract
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“Three studies, which used the visual-probe task to both modify and assess AB, found greater reduction in standard AB scores from pre- to posttraining during ABM than CON training”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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“anxious individuals often show no pretraining AB in orienting toward threat;”
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“AB to threat (typically assessed on probe-based attention tasks) has not been consistently observed in anxious individuals before training”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Abstract
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“In two studies that assessed effects on both anxiety and AB, anxiety reduction was greater for ABM-positive-search than control training or waitlist conditions (Waters et al., 2013, 2015).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 1: Effect of ABM on anxiety
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- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2013, 2015
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“Hazen et al. (2009) also found that AB for threat, which was present before training, reduced to no bias during ABM but not CON-attention training”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Hazen et al., 2009
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“For example, Enock et al. (2014) found greater anxiety reduction in both ABM-threat-avoidance and CON-attention training than a waitlist-control condition.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 1: Effect of ABM on anxiety
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“One other study by Kuckertz, Gildebrandt et al. (2014), which was home-based, found that anxiety reduction was greater during a combination of ABM-threat-avoidance training and fear-activation (participants were asked to engage in an anxiety-provoking activity before each ABM training session) compared with ABM-threat-avoidance or CON training without fear-activation”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 1: Effect of ABM on anxiety
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“Some of these studies also reported reduction in AB measures (which was also independent of type of attention-training method, ABM, CON).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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“Shechner et al. (2014) found greater anxiety reduction during attention-training (ABM or CON) combined with cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) relative to CBT alone.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 1: Effect of ABM on anxiety
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“These showed no significant changes in AB for threat relative to neutral faces during ABM-positive-search training and control conditions (Waters et al., 2013, 2015)”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2013
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“with both studies finding no AB for threat either pre- or posttraining”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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“geometric-attention training modified attention to targeted cues”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Yao et al., 2015
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“ABM-threat-avoidance training induced an AB away from threat in socially anxious individuals who showed no pretraining AB”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Yao et al., 2015
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“However, most studies in which anxiety reduced during training, irrespective of condition (ABM-threat-avoidance, CON-attention training, or inverse-ABM), found no change in AB toward threat”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Boettcher et al., 2012
- Not checked yetcites Britton et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites McNally et al., 2013
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“Neubauer et al.’s (2013) results suggested AB toward threat at both pre- and posttraining in socially anxious individuals”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Neubauer et al., 2013
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“and this was unchanged by training”
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“although stress-induced speech anxiety reduced from pre- to posttraining irrespective of training condition”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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“Most of these studies showed no pretraining AB in anxious individuals, and this was unchanged by training.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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“Boettcher et al.’s (2012) results suggested AB away from threat (avoidance) at both pre- and posttraining in socially anxious individuals”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Boettcher et al., 2012
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“Other studies indicated that anxiety reduction during attention training was accompanied by reduction in AB variability (within-session fluctuation) but not in the standard AB index of orienting to threat on the visual-probe task”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Badura-Brack et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites Clerkin et al., 2016
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“However, the three conditions had no effect on most anxiety measures”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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“In both studies, anxiety reduction was accompanied by improved attention control, irrespective of attention-training method (ABM, CON, or inverse-ABM).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Heeren, Mogoase, McNally et al., 2015
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“findings of threat-related RT-slowing (Kuckertz, Gildebrant et al., 2014; Neubauer et al., 2013)”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 3: Pretraining AB to threat in anxious individuals
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- Not checked yetcites Kuckertz, Gildebrant et al., 2014
- Not checked yetcites Neubauer et al., 2013
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“As noted in previous reviews (Cristea et al., 2015; MacLeod & Clarke, 2015), ABM has an inconsistent effect on anxiety.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications
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- Not checked yetcites Cristea et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites MacLeod & Clarke, 2015
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“One study using the modified Stroop task found a significant interference effect of threat relative to nonthreat words in PTSD sufferers before training (Khanna et al., 2016).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 3: Pretraining AB to threat in anxious individuals
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- Not checked yetcites Khanna et al., 2016
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“Hazen et al. (2009) found AB for threat relative to neutral words in students with high worry”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 3: Pretraining AB to threat in anxious individuals
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- Not checked yetcites Hazen et al., 2009
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“Shechner et al. (2014) found AB for disgust relative to neutral faces in children with mixed anxiety disorders”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 3: Pretraining AB to threat in anxious individuals
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- Not checked yetcites Shechner et al., 2014
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“Studies that assessed pre-training AB from nonstandard visual-probe scores or spatial-cuing tasks showed mixed findings.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 3: Pretraining AB to threat in anxious individuals
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“Of studies using standard visual-probe-task scores to assess AB, most did not find AB in orienting toward threat relative to nonthreat stimuli in anxious individuals before training”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 3: Pretraining AB to threat in anxious individuals
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“Of eight studies that found greater anxiety reduction during standard ABM-threat-avoidance than CON-attention training, three reported correspondingly greater reduction in standard AB scores from the visual-probe task from pre- to posttraining”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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- Not checked yetcites Amir, Beard, Burns et al., 2009
- Not checked yetcites Eldar et al., 2012
- Not checked yetcites Hazen et al., 2009
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“In one study, ABM-positive-search training increased AB for positive relative to neutral faces (Waters et al., 2013)”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2013
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“Eldar et al. (2012) excluded almost half of anxious children originally recruited because they lacked AB for threat”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 3: Pretraining AB to threat in anxious individuals
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- Not checked yetcites Eldar et al., 2012
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“the majority of experimenter-controlled studies did not find it to be more effective in reducing anxiety than comparison conditions”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“In Sigurjónsdóttir et al. (2015), pretraining AB (assessed on the spatial-cuing task) varied across treatment groups, with some showing AB to threat words and others no bias.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 3: Pretraining AB to threat in anxious individuals
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- Not checked yetcites Sigurjónsdóttir et al., 2015
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“Heeren et al. (2012) found AB for angry relative to happy faces in socially anxious adults”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 3: Pretraining AB to threat in anxious individuals
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- Not checked yetcites Heeren et al., 2012
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“threat-related RT-speeding (Boettcher et al., 2012)”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 3: Pretraining AB to threat in anxious individuals
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- Not checked yetcites Boettcher et al., 2012
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“studies finding a superior anxiolytic effect of ABM-threat-avoidance training were more likely to be laboratory- rather than home-based”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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- Not checked yetcites Cristea et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites MacLeod & Clarke, 2015
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“Studies that found greater anxiety reduction during ABM-threat-avoidance relative to control training often showed changes in performance on AB assessment tasks.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“Most ABM studies reviewed here did not find pretraining AB to threat in anxious individuals.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“ABM-positive-search training did not modify AB in orienting to threat in anxious children on the visual-probe task (Waters et al., 2013, 2015).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-positive-search training
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- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2013
- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2015
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“Together, these findings indicate that this ABM method reduces anxiety and stress symptoms in adults and children in laboratory, school, work, and home settings”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-positive-search training
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- Not checked yetcites Dandeneau et al., 2007
- Not checked yetcites De Voogd et al., 2014
- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2013
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“more recent reviews conclude that the relationship between anxiety and AB measures is less consistent than widely assumed”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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- Not checked yetcites Dudeney et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites Mogg & Bradley, 2016
- Not checked yetcites Van Bockstaele et al., 2014
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“A meta-analysis published 10 years ago indicated only a small-to-medium effect size for anxiety-related AB to threat on the visual-probe task (d = 0.37; Bar-Haim, Lamy, Pergamin, Bakermans-Kranenburg, & van Ijzendoorn, 2007)”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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- Not checked yetcites Bar-Haim et al., 2007
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“In the latter two studies, therapeutic gains were maintained or improved at 6 months follow-up.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-positive-search training
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- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2016
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“In most ABM studies, anxious individuals did not show preexisting AB in orienting toward threat (a fundamental assumption of ABM-threat-avoidance training).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Summary of findings
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“the majority of experimenter-controlled studies did not show therapeutic superiority of ABM-threat-avoidance over control training”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Summary of findings
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“Some studies indicate that anxiety reduction during attention training is accompanied by improvement in attention control.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Summary of findings
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“However, none of these novel methods has yet been used with anxiety disorders.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
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“many studies found that anxiety reduces during attention-control training (as well as during other comparison conditions, such as inverse-ABM)”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
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“A limitation is the small number of studies of ABM-positive-search training that have so far assessed its effects on both AB and anxiety symptoms in anxious individuals.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Concluding Comments
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“anxiety reduction is not consistently accompanied by reduction of this AB”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Concluding Comments
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“as anxious individuals often do not show this AB”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Concluding Comments
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“However, few multisession-ABM studies have included measures of attention control (as in Heeren, Mogoase, McNally et al., 2015; McNally et al., 2013) or AB in threat-distractor interference (as in Khanna et al., 2016).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
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- Not checked yetcites Heeren, Mogoase, McNally et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites McNally et al., 2013
- Not checked yetcites Khanna et al., 2016
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“Also, as noted earlier, interpretation of findings of AB change in previous studies of ABM-threat-avoidance training is complicated by methodological problems, such as diverse AB measures (some of which are difficult to interpret, as discussed earlier), and uncertainty regarding whether change in AB to threat (if found) generalized beyond probe-based tasks to other tasks.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
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“ABM-positive-search training appears promising in reducing anxiety.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Abstract
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“However, this conceptual view of AB is challenged by recent cognitive models of anxiety (see Mogg & Bradley, 2016, for a review)”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites Mogg & Bradley, 2016
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“It does not assess AB in spatial orienting toward or away from threat, because the target and distractor information are different attributes of the same stimulus, so the task does not engage spatial orienting.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Methods Used in AB Assessment > (iii) Modified Stroop task
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“Third, other processes may contribute to the anxiolytic effect of ABM training, such as improvement in attention control”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites Heeren, Mogoase, McNally et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites McNally et al., 2013
- Not checked yetcites Bar-Haim, 2010
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“AB in threat-distractor interference may reflect a combination of automatic interruption of task performance by task-irrelevant threat cues and poor cognitive control of threat-distractor processing (Algom, Chajut, & Lev, 2004; Williams, Mathews, & MacLeod, 1996).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Methods Used in AB Assessment
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- Not checked yetcites Algom, Chajut, & Lev, 2004
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“a widespread methodological problem with most ABM-threat-avoidance training studies is that they assessed AB change using the same or similar probe-based task to that used to modify AB”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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- Not checked yetcites Amir, Beard, Burns et al., 2009
- Not checked yetcites Cristea et al., 2015
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“it is not always clear that ABM-threat-avoidance training resulted in stable reduction of AB in orienting to threat from pre- to post-ABM training, as intended”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“However, the present review suggests this does not account for mixed findings from studies of ABM-threat-avoidance and ABM-positive-search training”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications
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“Thus, findings of change in AB measures do not necessarily reflect stable change in AB to threat, beyond the specific demands of the probe-based assessment task.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“This methodological issue may also help explain why change in AB to threat is more likely to be found with laboratory-based ABM-threat-avoidance training than home-based training.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“Repeated findings of anxiety reduction, independent of type of training, suggest a common anxiolytic effect of attention-training.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“Hence, their anxiolytic effects are likely to involve other mechanisms.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Summary of findings
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“Together, these findings indicate that anxiolytic effects of ABM and attention training do not depend on reduction of preexisting AB in orienting toward threat in anxious individuals.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Summary of findings
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“Evidence of AB change during ABM-threat-avoidance training is difficult to evaluate, given methodological issues discussed earlier.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Summary of findings
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“it is uncertain whether changes in AB measures from pre- to post-ABM-threat-avoidance training reflect specific experimental task demands and/or more general change in AB to threat”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Summary of findings
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“ABs in orienting to threat may also rapidly fluctuate between threat vigilance and avoidance (Badura-Brack et al., 2015; Mogg & Bradley, 1998, 2016; Zvielli, Bernstein, & Koster, 2014).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
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- Not checked yetcites Badura-Brack et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites Mogg & Bradley, 1998
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“interventions that promote coordinated functioning of multiple top-down functions during exposure to threat cues may be more effective in correcting imbalance between top-down and bottom-up systems than interventions that target isolated functions”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
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“its anxiolytic effect may depend on influencing multiple processes”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
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“According to recent cognitive models of anxiety, multiple top-down and bottom-up processes underpin anxiety, emotion regulation, and attention responses to threat.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Concluding Comments
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- Not checked yetcites Mogg & Bradley, 2016
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“Outcome-reporting bias may occur in a study where multiple outcome measures are available (e.g., multiple anxiety measures, or differing RT indices of AB) and favors reporting of those that show significant effects.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Concluding Comments
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- Not checked yetcites Cristea et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites Song, Hooper, & Loke, 2013
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“it is potentially suitable for all anxious individuals, irrespective of whether or not they show preexisting AB in orienting toward or away from threat, or unstable AB”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
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“Another issue that complicates evaluation of effects of ABM on AB and anxiety is dissemination bias (for discussion, see Cristea et al., 2015; Song, Hooper, & Loke, 2013).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Concluding Comments
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- Not checked yetcites Cristea et al., 2015
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“methods that combine extensive practice on attention tasks with threat-cue exposure may have anxiolytic effects by strengthening top-down cognitive control, in particular goal-directed inhibitory control over processing task-irrelevant threat”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
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“For example, publication bias, which favors reports of novel significant findings, leads to underrepresentation in journal articles of studies finding null differences between ABM and control conditions.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Concluding Comments
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- Not checked yetcites Cristea et al., 2015
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“Recent reviews of evidence from such comparisons have led to the conclusion that conventional ABM-threat-avoidance training is not clinically useful (e.g., Cristea et al., 2015; MacLeod & Clarke, 2015; present review).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
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- Not checked yetcites Cristea et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites MacLeod & Clarke, 2015
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“it concludes that the anxiolytic effects of ABM and attention training do not depend on reducing preexisting AB in orienting attention toward threat in anxious individuals”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Concluding Comments
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“For example, poor reliability of measures of AB in orienting to threat may not only reflect measurement error but also indicate that this index does not have strong stable trait-like characteristics.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
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- Not checked yetcites Zvielli et al., 2014
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“Three studies, which found superior anxiolytic effects of ABM-threat-avoidance training (relative to CON-attention training), assessed AB on spatial-cuing tasks (Amir, Beard, Taylor et al., 2009; Bar-Haim et al., 2011; Liang & Hsu, 2016). Although none of these studies showed pretraining AB to threat”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Amir, Beard, Taylor et al., 2009
- Not checked yetcites Bar-Haim et al., 2011
- Not checked yetcites Liang & Hsu, 2016
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“Consequently, we identified 34 studies published between 2008 and the end of 2016 that met the specifications for this review (33 publications, with one describing two studies; indicated in “References”).2 Of these, 32 studies used ABM-threat-avoidance training and two used ABM-positive-search training.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Abstract
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“Specifically, eight studies indicated that standard ABM-threat-avoidance training was superior to CON-attention training in reducing anxiety, all of which administered training under experimenter-controlled conditions”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 1: Effect of ABM on anxiety
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“Nonstandard AB scores on the visual-probe task suggested pretraining AB to threat (slower RTs on threat-present than threat-absent trials), which reduced from pre- to posttraining during ABM with fear activation and CON-only training but not during ABM-only training.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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“AB reduction was found for threat stimuli used during ABM training, which did not generalize to new threat stimuli.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Eldar et al., 2012
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“In Amir, Beard, Burns et al. (2009), anxious individuals showed no AB before training and showed threat avoidance after ABM training but not after CON-attention training.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Amir, Beard, Burns et al., 2009
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“This outcome was found in 23 studies: 15 experimenter-controlled (laboratory-, clinic-, or school-based settings), 7 home-based training, and 1 assessing training in both settings”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 1: Effect of ABM on anxiety
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“By contrast, in Heeren et al. (2012), socially anxious adults showed pretraining AB for angry faces on the visual-probe task, which reduced during ABM-threat-avoidance training (resulting in posttraining AB away from angry relative to happy faces) but did not change during CON or inverse-ABM training”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Heeren et al., 2012
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“Khanna et al. (2016) used different attentional tasks to assess and modify AB in PTSD (modified Stroop and visual-probe tasks, respectively) and found pretraining AB for combat-related threat words (indexed by threat-distractor-interference effect on RT) reduced during both ABM and CON training, so this AB was no longer evident posttraining.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Khanna et al., 2016
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“they reported RT changes from pre- to posttraining, which included faster RTs to probes appearing in a different location to threat cues (i.e., faster RTs on invalid-threat trials) following ABM training.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Amir, Beard, Taylor et al., 2009
- Not checked yetcites Bar-Haim et al., 2011
- Not checked yetcites Liang & Hsu, 2016
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“One of these studies showed moderate to large improvements in clinical outcome measures across training conditions; moreover, anxiety reduction was unexpectedly greater for inverse-ABM training (Boettcher et al., 2013).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 1: Effect of ABM on anxiety
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- Not checked yetcites Boettcher et al., 2013
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“Thus, both anxiety and AB measures reduced during ABM and CON-attention training in these studies (Enock et al., 2014; Khanna et al., 2016; Shechner et al., 2014).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Enock et al., 2014
- Not checked yetcites Khanna et al., 2016
- Not checked yetcites Shechner et al., 2014
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“These studies also commonly reported changes in performance on AB tasks from pre- to posttraining. However, the nature of these changes varied across studies.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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“Hence, although anxiety reduction was greater in ABM with fear activation than CON-only training, these conditions had a similar effect on AB scores.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Kuckertz, Gildebrant et al., 2014
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“In Heeren et al. (2012), there was similar reduction in self-reported anxiety between pre- and posttraining during both ABM-threat-avoidance and CON-attention training but not during inverse-ABM training, with further anxiety reduction between posttraining and 2-week follow-up for ABM-threat-avoidance training.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 1: Effect of ABM on anxiety
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- Not checked yetcites Heeren et al., 2012
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“In one study, ABM-threat-avoidance training selectively modified AB to threat but not anxiety (Yao et al., 2015).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Yao et al., 2015
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“Clerkin et al. (2016) found reductions in AB variability and anxiety symptoms (but not standard AB scores) in socially anxious alcohol-dependent individuals, which occurred during both ABM-threat-avoidance and CON-attention training.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Clerkin et al., 2016
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“In Badura-Brack et al.’s studies, there was greater reduction in PTSD symptoms and AB variability (but not standard AB scores) during CON-attention training compared with ABM-threat-avoidance training”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Badura-Brack et al., 2015
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“or no RT difference between invalid-threat and invalid-nonthreat trials (Amir, Beard, Taylor et al., 2009; Bar-Haim et al., 2011; Heeren, Mogoase, McNally et al., 2015; Liang & Hsu, 2016) before training”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 3: Pretraining AB to threat in anxious individuals
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- Not checked yetcites Amir, Beard, Taylor et al., 2009
- Not checked yetcites Bar-Haim et al., 2011
- Not checked yetcites Liang & Hsu, 2016
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“in about two thirds of studies, ABM-threat-avoidance training was not more effective in reducing anxiety than comparison conditions, which in most studies was control-attention training”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“other studies reported reduction in within-session AB variability (Kuckertz, Amir et al., 2014; Li et al., 2008) or changes in RT indices on spatial-cuing tasks that may reflect reduction in general threat-related RT slowing and/or faster orienting away from threat”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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- Not checked yetcites Kuckertz, Amir et al., 2014
- Not checked yetcites Li et al., 2008
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“In one study, ABM combined with fear activation was more effective than CON-attention training without fear activation in reducing anxiety (which may have been due to fear activation alone or its combination with ABM) but had a similar effect in reducing nonstandard AB scores (Kuckertz, Gildebrandt et al., 2014).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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- Not checked yetcites Kuckertz, Gildebrandt et al., 2014
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“Price et al.’s (2016) meta-analysis of questionnaire data selected from 11 studies, which indicated that 29% of anxious individuals receiving ABM-threat-avoidance training, and 24% of those receiving CON-attention training, showed improvement in anxiety (indexed by a decrease in social anxiety scores of 30% or more at posttraining relative to pretraining)”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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- Not checked yetcites Price et al., 2016
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“other evidence also indicates that anxious individuals do not consistently show AB in orienting toward threat and sometimes show threat-avoidance or no bias”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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- Not checked yetcites Cisler & Koster, 2010
- Not checked yetcites Dudeney et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites Van Bockstaele et al., 2014
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“In the latter three studies, ABM-positive-search training was delivered at home to children with anxiety disorders, and about one-third to a half of them were free of their primary anxiety disorder after ABM training.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-positive-search training
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- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2013
- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2016
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“in many studies, anxiety symptoms reduced to a similar degree during both ABM-threat-avoidance and CON-attention training (often without reduction in AB to threat)”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“To our knowledge, only two studies have so far assessed effects of multisession ABM-positive-search training on both anxiety and AB in the same sample of anxious individuals, and these showed anxiolytic effects relative to comparison conditions (Waters et al., 2013, 2015).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-positive-search training
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- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2013
- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2015
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“Anxiety symptoms often reduced during both ABM-threat-avoidance and control-attention training (sometimes with moderate-to-large effect sizes, and often without change in AB to threat).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Summary of findings
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“Inclusion of additional ABM studies in this review does not alter conclusions from previous reviews that ABM-threat-avoidance training has an inconsistent anxiolytic effect, relative to control-attention training, and that any additional benefit of this ABM method is largely restricted to experimenter-controlled settings”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Summary of findings
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- Not checked yetcites Cristea et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites MacLeod & Clarke, 2015
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“However, the clinical effectiveness of other ABM methods, such as multisession ABM-positive-search training, remains to be established.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
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“However, such comparisons do not control for expectancy effects or provide information about specific features of ABM training that may convey therapeutic benefit”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
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“Outcome measures of anxiety vary considerably across studies, which poses a problem for meta-analyses (Cristea et al., 2015)”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Methods Used in Anxiety Assessment
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- Not checked yetcites Cristea et al., 2015
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“but noted that conclusions were limited by small sample sizes at posttraining (n = 9 and n = 8 in ABM and CON groups, respectively).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Findings From ABM Studies Relating to Predictions > Prediction 2: Effect of ABM on AB to threat
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- Not checked yetcites Hazen et al., 2009
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“This control-attention-training (CON-attention-training) condition is designed to control for the effects of multisession practice on the visual-probe task and threat-cue exposure but without modifying AB to threat.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Methods Used in ABM Training > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“Top-down attention control processes may also be modified by control training conditions, thereby contributing to evidence of anxiety reductions in both active ABM as well as control conditions”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Abstract
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“Moreover, the efficacy of ABM-threat-avoidance training depends on its mode of delivery; that is, it tends to be more effective in reducing anxiety relative to control conditions when delivered in laboratory settings but not when delivered at home”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites Cristea et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites MacLeod & Clarke, 2015
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“Although early studies using ABM-threat-avoidance training with clinically anxious individuals were promising (e.g., Amir, Beard, Burns et al., 2009; Amir, Beard, Taylor et al., 2009), replication failures and meta-analyses indicate inconsistent effects on anxiety and question its clinical utility”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites Beard, Sawyer, & Hofmann, 2012
- Not checked yetcites Cristea, Kok, & Cuijpers, 2015
- Not checked yetcites Emmelkamp, 2012
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“Of 22 multisession studies, 45% indicated change in both AB and anxiety during ABM training relative to control conditions, whereas the others showed no difference in change in either measure.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites MacLeod and Clarke, 2015
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“These AB measures are typically uncorrelated, consistent with different underlying processes (Cisler, Bacon, & Williams, 2009).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Methods Used in AB Assessment
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- Not checked yetcites Cisler, Bacon, & Williams, 2009
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“For example, meta-analyses commonly treat AB as a unitary construct and do not discriminate between differing ABM training methods and AB indices.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Abstract
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“If so, AB reduction may be a consequence of improved attention control and/or reduced anxiety (rather than being a cause of anxiety reduction).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“This task-specific rule applies to both visual-probe and spatial-cuing tasks (i.e., learning this rule would have a similar effect on RTs on threat-incongruent trials on the visual-probe task and invalid-threat trials on the spatial-cuing task), so switching between these tasks for assessment and training would not eliminate this problem.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“Thus, the combination of attention training and threat exposure may have an anxiolytic effect (which is common to ABM-threat-avoidance and CON-attention-training), whereas trying to modify the direction of AB in orienting away from threat conveyed no additional anxiolytic benefit in many studies.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“Null findings have to be interpreted with caution (e.g., sample sizes tend to be modest; ABs are inferred indirectly from RT data; and RT-based AB measures have low reliability, which poses a challenge for ABM research; MacLeod & Clarke, 2015).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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- Not checked yetcites MacLeod & Clarke, 2015
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“Thus, this ABM method seems promising in treating anxiety disorders in home settings, and its anxiolytic effect does not seem to depend on reducing AB in orienting to threat.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-positive-search training
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“participants may implicitly or explicitly learn a task-specific rule during ABM-threat-avoidance training—that is, probes are more likely to appear in the opposite location to threat cues—which would speed RTs on threat-incongruent or invalid-threat trials and result in apparent AB reduction”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > ABM-threat-avoidance training
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“However, most cognitive models of anxiety propose that both bottom-up (automatic) and top-down (controlled) processes play an important role in anxiety and attention responses to threat”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
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- Not checked yetcites Bar-Haim et al., 2007
- Not checked yetcites Beck & Clark, 1997
- Not checked yetcites Cisler & Koster, 2010
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“Multisession ABM-positive-search training seems promising in reducing anxiety, including when used in home settings, and its anxiolytic effect does not depend on reducing AB in orienting to threat.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Summary of findings
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“Bottom-up functions include automatic stimulus-salience evaluation, alerting, automatic interrupt/inhibition of ongoing goal-directed activity, and automatic attention orienting to threat”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
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- Not checked yetcites Corbetta & Shulman, 2002
- Not checked yetcites Pessoa & Adolphs, 2010
- Not checked yetcites Petersen & Posner, 2012
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“ABM-threat-avoidance training is supported by a cognitive view of anxiety, which proposes that anxious individuals are characterized by an enhanced automatic AB toward threat, which plays a causal role in anxiety (e.g., Williams, Watts, MacLeod, & Mathews, 1988).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
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- Not checked yetcites Williams et al., 1988
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“top-down functions include goal-directed inhibitory-control (which is a core component underlying a wide range of top-down control functions), cognitive flexibility, maintaining and updating goals in working memory, reason-based appraisal, and controlled attention orienting”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
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- Not checked yetcites Diamond, 2013
- Not checked yetcites Miyake & Friedman, 2012
- Not checked yetcites Petersen & Posner, 2012
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“Hence, it predicts that an intervention that reduces preexisting AB toward threat in anxious individuals and instead makes them threat avoidant should reduce anxiety.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
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Probably not a substantial claim.
- The authors state this as an assumption: The cognitive view assumes that low-anxious individuals are characterized by attentional avoidance of threat.
In the paper
“These top-down functions typically operate in a unified manner to support goal-directed activity (Duncan, 2010).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Duncan, 2010
plaincorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
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In the paper
“According to this framework, both excessive anxiety and ABs to threat reflect imbalance between these bottom-up and top-down systems.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
plaincorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. It may state two separate claims as one.
The paper states this without a source or data behind it here, so there is nothing to check it against. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Thus, AB to threat is not a unitary construct, and its manifestations reflect differing combinations of processes (Fig. 1).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Excessive anxiety may arise from a combination of inadequate top-down goal-directed inhibitory control and hyperreactivity to threat cues of the bottom-up threat-salience-evaluation mechanism”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Theoretical considerations
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: fails — The paper may give no reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“such findings may be explained by a differing theoretical view, which proposes that dysfunction in multiple processes (including top-down attention control and threat-distractor inhibition) contributes to anxiety and differing manifestations of ABs and may be modified by both active ABM and control-attention training”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. It may state two separate claims as one.
None of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“However, preliminary studies indicate that this method is effective in reducing nonclinical and clinical anxiety in both experimenter-controlled and home-based settings and thus merits further evaluation (Dandeneau et al., 2007; De Voogd et al., 2014; Waters et al., 2013, 2015, 2016).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Concluding Comments
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Dandeneau et al., 2007
- Not checked yetcites De Voogd et al., 2014
- Not checked yetcites Waters et al., 2013, 2015, 2016
hedgeddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
None of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“Potential sources of bias include publication bias (“file-drawer” problem) and outcome-reporting bias (“cherry-picking”), which may influence the ratio of significant to null findings in published reports.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Concluding Comments
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Cristea et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites Song, Hooper, & Loke, 2013
plainconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
None of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“recent models of anxiety predict that ABM methods that recruit multiple top-down goal-directed cognitive-control processes to oppose threat processing will be more effective in reducing anxiety than methods targeting one specific bias in direction of orienting toward threat”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Mogg & Bradley, 2016
- Not checked yetcites Waters & Craske, 2016
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim.
In the paper
“ABs may have both state- and trait-like characteristics and reflect an individual’s current motivational/goal priorities that are dominant in a particular situation (e.g., to automatically detect unattended threat; to maintain attention on threat to allow more detailed evaluation; to avoid attending to threat cues to minimize subjective discomfort; or to suppress threat-related AB to support task-”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Mogg & Bradley, 2016
hedgedcorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: unclear — It is unclear whether the paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Anxiolytic effects of ABM may relate to improvements in attention control and threat-distractor inhibition, which are distinct from modifying the direction of AB in orienting away from threat.”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: fails — The paper may give no reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
In the paper
“Establishing whether an intervention is effective in treating anxiety requires a systematic approach comparing it with a series of different conditions to examine specific issues (Lohr, Lilienfeld, & Rosen, 2012).”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Lohr, Lilienfeld, & Rosen, 2012
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: fails — It may be too vague to check against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.
In the paper
“it highlights the role of multiple top-down and bottom-up mechanisms, which are proposed by cognitive models to underlie anxiety and which may contribute to anxiolytic effects of ABM, such as goal-directed attention control and threat-distractor inhibition (Mogg & Bradley, 2016);”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Concluding Comments
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Mogg & Bradley, 2016
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
In the paper
“and these priorities may in turn depend on multiple task-related and individual-difference variables”
§ Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of Effects of Multisession ABM Training on Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention in High-Anxious Individuals > Discussion: ABM Methods, Outcomes, and Theoretical and Research Implications > Implications for ABM research
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Mogg & Bradley, 2016
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: fails — It may be too vague to check against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
The paper relies on this without support.
The included studies' measures of anxiety and attention bias are sufficiently valid and comparable to permit a qualitative synthesis of their findings.
“In common with MacLeod and Clarke (2015), we conducted a qualitative review to allow detailed examination of variations in methodology and findings across studies that may be obscured in a quantitative review (Cristea et al., 2015).”
The authors state this as an assumption.
ABM-threat-avoidance training assumes that anxious individuals have a preexisting AB to orient attention toward threat cues relative to nonthreat cues.
“ABM-threat-avoidance training assumes that anxious individuals have a preexisting AB to orient attention toward threat cues relative to nonthreat cues”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The cognitive view assumes that low-anxious individuals are characterized by attentional avoidance of threat.
“This view further assumes that low-anxious individuals are characterized by attentional avoidance of threat.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The anxiety-related AB toward threat is assumed to operate automatically and outside awareness.
“the anxiety-related AB toward threat is assumed to operate automatically and outside awareness”
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The cited source says what the claim attributes to it.
In the citing paper
“Many ABM studies have shown that this redirection of attention yields greater reduction of self-reported and clinically rated fear symptoms than attending directly to phobic stimuli (Hakamata, Lissek, Bar-Haim, Britton, et al. 2010; Heeren, Reese, McNally & Philippot, 2012; however, see Mogg, Waters & Bradley (2017) for inconsistent findings when ABM is compared to more rigorous control conditions”
From Advancing the treatment of anxiety disorders in transition‐age youth: a review of the therapeutic effects of unconscious exposure. (2025) · cites this paper as Mogg, Waters & Bradley (2017)
In the citing paper
“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].”
From Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention: Cognitive-Motivational Framework and Treatment (2018) · cites this paper as [7]
In the citing paper
“However, this cooccurrence is not consistently found [7], and conclusions are complicated by methodological issues (e.g., differing outcome measures, confounding variables, low-quality studies, publication bias) [9,79].”
From Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention: Cognitive-Motivational Framework and Treatment (2018) · cites this paper as [7]
In the citing paper
“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].”
From Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention: Cognitive-Motivational Framework and Treatment (2018) · cites this paper as [7]
In the citing paper
“AB assessment methods include visual probe, spatial cueing, modified Stroop, flanker, and visual search tasks [6,7,12,19,35,53-55,86,98-100].”
From Anxiety and Threat-Related Attention: Cognitive-Motivational Framework and Treatment (2018) · cites this paper as [7]
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mogg, K., Waters, A. M., & Bradley, B. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Southampton (GB)
- Griffith University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Mogg, Karin
- Venue
- Clinical Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2017-04-26
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 698-717
- ISSN
- 2167-7026 (ISSN-L)
- 2167-7034
- PMC
- PMC5513441
- OpenAlex
- W2607627610
- Semantic Scholar
- 33dc86184688b3d716fef304156afd0a429a078d
- Cited by
- 215
- References
- 100
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 65 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 7
- FWCI
- 5.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Clinical Psychological Science (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Keywords
- attentional bias modification, attention bias to threat, anxiety reduction, threat avoidance, top-down cognitive control, attentional orienting
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