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Regulating Effect of Attention Bias Modification on Anxiety Disorders

  • FANG Jianwen ,
  • YANG Haibo
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  • Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
* YANG Haibo, psy-yhb@126.com

Online published: 2024-10-18

Abstract

One of the causes of anxiety disorder may be the attentional bias towards threat stimuli. Many studies have adopted attentional bias training to relieve anxiety. Although attentional bias training was widely used, the classic paradigm has not achieved good results. Therefore, people have developed some new methods on the basis of this method, and made various improvements in experimental materials, experimental paradigms, policy-making methods, and the number of trials. However, the existing study results of these new methods are not consistent. In the future, this research needs to be promoted in terms of brain structure, clear indicators, and the use of multiple technologies.

Cite this article

FANG Jianwen , YANG Haibo . Regulating Effect of Attention Bias Modification on Anxiety Disorders[J]. Psychological Communications, 2020 , 3(3) : 195 -200 . DOI: 10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.220003

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