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Open AccessHostile and threatening interpretation biases in adolescent inpatients are specific to callous-unemotional traits and social anxiety
Psychopathological syndromes, such as disruptive behavior and anxiety disorders in adolescence, are characterized by distorted cognitions and problematic behavior. Biased interpretations of ambiguous social si...
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A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study Exploring the Additive Clinical Effect of Cognitive Bias Modification-Memory in Depressed Inpatients
Depression often leads to clinical admission. Stimulating positive memory bias through repeated retrieval can counteract a ruminative depressotypic processing style. Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM)-Memory is...
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Open AccessAttention and Interpretation Bias Modification Transfers to Memory Bias: Testing the Combined Cognitive Bias Hypothesis
This study delves into the combined cognitive bias hypothesis in depression, exploring the interaction between negative attention, interpretation and memory biases. We aimed to assess whether modifying attenti...
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Open AccessSpecific interpretation biases as a function of social anxiety and callous-unemotional traits in a community and a clinical adolescent sample
Threatening and hostile interpretation biases are seen as causal and maintaining mechanisms of childhood anxiety and aggression, respectively. However, it is unclear whether these interpretation biases are spe...
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“There Is This Strange Feeling: Oh no, Another Panic Attack!” – A Case Study in Panic Disorder
The case of Susan, a kindergarten teacher who developed panic disorder as well as a mild agoraphobia after a bad case of flue, is presented. She exhibited some of the typical misinterpretations of panic disord...
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Open AccessThe Longitudinal Interplay Between Attention Bias and Interpretation Bias in Social Anxiety in Adolescents
Cognitive biases are found to play a role in the onset and maintenance of social anxiety. However, particularly in adolescence, the link between different biases and their role in predicting social anxiety is ...
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Open AccessA New Social Picture Task to Assess Interpretation Bias related to social fears in adolescents
This pre-registered study focused on develo** a new social picture task to assess interpretation bias related to social fears in adolescents. Using such a pictorial task may increase ecological validity and ...
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Open AccessChanging Metacognitive Appraisal Bias in High-Worriers Through Reappraisal Training
Worry-related negative metacognitive beliefs about worrying maintain and predict pathological worry. For the current proof-of-principle study, we developed a computerized cognitive bias modification based—reap...
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Open AccessCorrection to: A New Social Picture Task to Assess Interpretation Bias Related to Social Fears in Adolescents
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A Validation of an Ambiguous Social Scenario Task for Socially Anxious and Socially Callous Interpretations
The tendencies to interpret social situations as threatening or hostile are called interpretation biases triggering fear or anger, avoidance or aggression, respectively. These biases play a substantial role in...
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Open AccessNo evidence for disruption of reconsolidation of conditioned threat memories with a cognitively demanding intervention
Simultaneous execution of memory retrieval and cognitively demanding interventions alter the subjective experience of aversive memories. This principle can be used in treatment to target traumatic memories. An...
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Open AccessA randomized controlled trial of cognitive control training (CCT) as an add-on treatment for late-life depression: a study protocol
Already a major health concern, late-life depression (LLD) is expected to form an increasing problem in the aging population. Moreover, despite current treatments, LLD is associated with a poor long-term progn...
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A Cognitive Control Training as Add-On Treatment to Usual Care for Depressed Inpatients
There is a growing body of research supporting the potential therapeutic value of the Cognitive Control Training (CCT) for depression, even though more research including a control condition is necessary to in...
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Lernpsychologische Grundlagen
In diesem Kapitel wird beschrieben, welche Rolle grundlegende Lernformen bei der Entstehung, Aufrechterhaltung und Therapie von psychischen Störungen spielen. Die Grundprinzipien und wichtigsten Begriffe der k...
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Open AccessContent-Specific Interpretation Bias in Children with Varying Levels of Anxiety: The Role of Gender and Age
The current study examined whether children varying in their levels of social anxiety, separation anxiety and spider fear exhibit a negative interpretation bias specific for their fears. Furthermore, age and g...
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Open AccessEffects of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on a Behavioural Measure of Rumination in Patients with Chronic, Treatment-Resistant Depression
It has been found that Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) reduces rumination in remitted and currently depressed patients. However, less is known about the effects of MBCT on rumination in chronically ...
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Open Access„Cognitive bias modification“ als mögliche Add-on-Therapie bei Depression
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Open AccessThe Role of Self-reports and Behavioral Measures of Interpretation Biases in Children with Varying Levels of Anxiety
We investigated the role of self-reports and behavioral measures of interpretation biases and their content-specificity in children with varying levels of spider fear and/or social anxiety. In total, 141 selec...
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Open AccessEye-Tracking Based Attention Bias Modification (ET-ABM) Facilitates Disengagement from Negative Stimuli in Dysphoric Individuals
To address shortcomings of purely reaction-time based attention bias modification (ABM) paradigms, a novel eye-tracking based ABM training (ET-ABM) was developed. This training targets the late disengagement f...
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Reducing Approach Bias to Achieve Smoking Cessation: A Pilot Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial
This study aimed to provide a preliminary test of the efficacy of a brief cognitive bias modification program for reducing approach bias in adult smokers motivated to quit. Participants were 52 smokers who wer...
