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.

Pain on Our Radar: How Interpretation Bias Holds the Key to Attentional Focus
In this article Christina Liossi (University of Southampton, UK) and Munaa Ibrahimi (University of Birmingham, UK) provide expert commentaries on: Broadbent, P., Schoth, D. E., & Liossi, C. (2022). Association between attentional bias to experimentally induced pain and to pain-related words in healthy individuals: the moderating role of interpretation bias. Pain, 163(2), 319–333. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002318

Binge Eating in the Crosshairs: Harnessing tDCS and ABMT for a Brain-Directed Breakthrough
In this article Rudi De Raedt (Ghent University, Belgium) and Sina Omyan (University of Arkansas, USA) provide expert commentaries on: Flynn, M., Campbell, I. C., & Schmidt, U. (2024). Concurrent self-administered transcranial direct current stimulation and attention bias modification training in binge eating disorder: feasibility randomised sham-controlled trial. BJPsych Open, 10(4), e118.

Flipping the Script: How Positive vs. Negative Imagery Training Shapes Autobiographical Memory
In this article, Simon Blackwell (University of Göttingen, Germany) and Baruch Perlman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) provide expert commentaries on: Mandelbaum, D., & Kalanthroff, E. (2024). Interpretation Bias Modification Affects Autobiographical Memory. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 48(6), 1090–1097. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-024-10505-w

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

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

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

Recent CBM Reviews and Opinions – January 2024
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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

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

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

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

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

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

Recent CBM Reviews and Opinions – January 2023
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Leapfrogging ahead in treatment development
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Recent CBM Reviews and Opinions – September 2022
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Gamification of CBM-I: How can we do it, and should we do it?
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Multiple cognitive biases involved in soft drink consumption
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The dual probe task: Finally a reliable measure of attention bias?
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Recent CBM Reviews and Opinions – June 2022
Arad, G., & Bar-Haim, Y. (2021). Cognitive bias interventions. In A.

How should we deliver Approach avoidance trainings?
Approach-Avoidance Trainings (AAT) have been shown to be very beneficial in

Don’t worry – a question of interpretation?
So far, the results regarding the efficacy of CBM when delivered

HABIT-Works – how to professionally implement a computer-training!
Cognitive bias modification interventions have been around for a while, and

A hybrid of in-clinic and at home attention bias modification treatment reduces symptoms in depressed individuals
This three-arms randomized controlled trial of 145 adults with depression, conducted

Cognitive bias modification for appraisals provided as an adjuvant to an inpatient PTSD treatment program is effective in modifying dysfunctional trauma-related appraisals and in reducing PTSD symptoms
This clinical trial of 80 German inpatients with PTSD (Woud et

Cognitive bias modification reduces risk for early relapse following alcohol withdrawal treatment
A clinical trial of 300 Australian patients with alcohol use disorder

Recent CBM Reviews and Opinions – November 2021
Gober, C. D., Lazarov, A., & Bar-Haim, Y. (2021). From cognitive