Induced processing biases have causal effects on anxiety

By A. Mathews, C. MacLeod. 2002

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Attentional Bias in Generalized Anxiety Disorder Versus Depressive Disorder (2005, background): “Thus, attentional training interventions, which train individuals to direct their attention away from negative information, may prove to be a helpful therapeutic strategy in the management of anxiety (see also Mathews & MacLeod, 2002 ).”
Attention Bias Modification Treatment: A meta-analysis towards the establishment of novel treatment for anxiety (2010, background): “This figure suggests the presence of three possible outlirs with particularly large effects (28,32).”
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Different Treatments, Similar Mechanisms? (2008, background): “…differentiate nonanxious and anxious individuals (e.g., Asmundson et al., 1992; Bradley et al., 1998, 1999, 2000) and there is initial evidence to support a causal role of attentional biases in the etiology of anxiety and emotional reactivity (MacLeod et al., 2002, 2004; Mathews & MacLeod, 2002).”
Cognitive bias in a non-human primate: husbandry procedures influence cognitive indicators of psychological well-being in captive rhesus macaques (2012, background): “These emotion-mediated biases in the 56 appraisal of the valence of stimuli, events and future outcomes are implicated in the onset and 57 maintenance of clinical affective disorders in modern day human populations (Gray 1971; 58 Mathews & MacLeod 2002).”
Theories and measurement of visual attentional processing in anxiety (2008, methodology): “…studies offer preliminary support for a causal role of visual attentional processing in anxiety and suggest the use of experimental paradigms as treatment tools (MacLeod, Campbell, Rutherford, & Wilson, 2004; MacLeod, Rutherford, Campbell, Ebsworthy, & Holker, 2002; Mathews & MacLeod, 2002).”
The Effect of an Impulsive Personality on Overeating and Obesity: Current State of Affairs (2008, background): “Anxiety has been experimentally induced by training normal participants to react the same way as anxious patients to the dot-probe task (Mathews & MacLeod, 2002).”
Unreliability of the dot probe task (2005, result): “…Mogg et al., 1992).2 Likewise, the present results do not account for studies investigating effects of the situation (e.g. MacLeod & Mathews, 1988) or effects of experimentally induced biases (MacLeod, Rutherford, Campbell, Ebsworthy, & Holker, 2002; Mathews & MacLeod, 2002) on the dot probe task.”
Developing interpretation bias modification as a "cognitive vaccine" for depressed mood: imagining positive events makes you feel better than thinking about them verbally. (2009, background): “Recent computerized cognitive bias modification (CBM) techniques that target interpretation (CBM-I) suggest possibilities for modifying such biases (Grey & Mathews, 2000; Mathews & Mackintosh, 2000; Mathews & MacLeod, 2002).”
Cognition and Depression: Current Status and Future Directions (2010, background): “In a subsequent study, Mathews & MacLeod (2002) established that the attentional training was effective in reducing anxiety in high-STAI scorers one month before a school examination.”