CBM News

CBM News items are selected by our editorial team to highlights groundbreaking research in measurement and modification of cognitive biases, along with commentaries solicited from leading experts and early career scientists. List of recent review and opinion papers on cognitive biases and CBM are also provided periodically.

Re-Routing the Walk Down Memory Lane

In this article, Yannick Vander Zwalmen and Jutta Joormann (Yale University), and Rachel Weisenburger, Molly McNamara, and Christopher Beevers (University of Texas at Austin) provide expert commentaries on: Vrijsen, J. N., Windbergs, H., Becker, E. S., Scherbaum, N., Müller, B. W., & Tendolkar, I. (2024). A randomized controlled pilot study exploring the additive clinical effect of cognitive bias modification-memory in depressed inpatients. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 48(2), 212-224. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-023-10452-y

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Can CBM-I be used to Alleviate Loneliness?

In this article, Bethany Teachman (University of Virginia), and Ashley Boyne and Michelle Rozenman (University of Denver) provide expert commentaries on: Riddleston, L., Bangura, E., Gibson, O., Qualter, P., & Lau, J. Y. (2023). Developing an interpretation bias modification training task for alleviating loneliness in young people. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 168, 104380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104380

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Attention Allocation: Trait-Like or Mood Dependent?

In this article, Mahdi Mazidi and Ben Grafton (University of Western Australia), and Julia Michalek and Jennifer Lau (Queen Mary University of London) provide expert commentaries on: Hertz-Palmor, N., Yosef, Y., Hallel, H., Bernat, I., & Lazarov, A. (2024). Exploring the ‘mood congruency’ hypothesis of attention allocation–An eye-tracking study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 347, 619-629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.12.004

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Keeping Eyes on Attentional Bias Variability

In this article, Lies Notebaert (University of Western Australia), Bree Michelson (University of Western Australia) and Pat Clarke (Curtin University) provide expert commentary on:

Alon, Y., Bar-Haim, Y., Dykan, C, D. G., Suarez-Jiminez, B., Zhu, X., Neria, Y., Lazarov, A. (2023). Eye-tracking indices of attention allocation and attention bias variability are differently related to trauma exposure and PTSD. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2023.102715

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Refashioning the Future

In this article, Julie Ji (University of Plymouth), Julian Basanovic (University of Exeter) and Amelia Reynolds (University of Western Australia) provide expert commentary on:

Eberle, J. W., Boukhechba, M., Sun, J., Zhang, D., Funk, D. H., Barnes, L. E., & Teachman, B. A. (2023). Shifting episodic prediction with online Cognitive Bias Modification: A randomized controlled trial. Clinical Psychological Science, 11(5), 819–840. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026221103128

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Discounted Chocolate: How Go/NoGo Training Drives Food Devaluation

In this article, Dan Rudaizky (Curtin University) and Nienke Jonkers (University of Groningen) provide expert commentary on:
Houben, K. (2023). How does Go/NoGo training lead to food devaluation. Separating the effects of motor inhibition and response valence. Cognition and Emotion, 37(4), 763–776. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2208339

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Gone for Good

In this article, Mike Rinck (Radboud University) provides an expert commentary on: Onie, S., MacLeod, C., & Most, S. B. (2022). Gone for Good: Lack of Priming Suggests Early Perceptual Interference in Emotion-Induced Blindness With Negative Stimuli. Emotion. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0001170

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Proactive and Reactive Control

In this article, Margaret Modico and Jeremy Pettit (Florida International University), and Nader Amir and Rachel John (San Diego State University) provide expert commentaries on:
Valadez, E.A., et al. (2022). Development of Proactive Control and Anxiety Among Behaviorally Inhibited Adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2022.04.012

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Attention bias training using music

In this article, Elske Salemink (Utrecht University) provides an expert commentary on: Arad et al. (2022). Attention bias modification treatment versus a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or waiting list control for social anxiety disorder: a randomized clinical trial. American Journal of Psychiatry. doi: https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20220533

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