Tag: Cognitive Bias Modification

Some people expect things to go wrong in their lives, and this negative cognitive bias in their thinking can aggravate and maintain clinical anxiety and depression disorders. These researchers evaluated whether an online treatment could reduce negative bias and lead to improved mental health. They conducted an experiment with over 900 participants organized into five groups including two positive treatment groups, two half-positive/half-negative treatment groups, and one neutral control group. Participants in the two positive treatment groups showed more improvement in cognitive bias than either of the other three groups, and this relative improvement persisted over a one-month period.

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