ArticleJournal of abnormal psychology2010
Attentional bias toward suicide-related stimuli predicts suicidal behavior.
Article in Journal of abnormal psychology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 92 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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92 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 298 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Decision-making and cognitive control in adolescent suicidal behaviors: a qualitative systematic review of the literature.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
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- Less is more: Patient-level meta-analysis reveals paradoxical dose-response effects of a computer-based social anxiety intervention targeting attentional bias.Depression and anxiety · 2017Pooled it
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- Computational Modeling Applied to the Dot-Probe Task Yields Improved Reliability and Mechanistic Insights.Biological psychiatry · 2019Trial
- Evaluating cognitive effort in a randomized controlled trial.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2016Trial
- Mind over matter: reappraising arousal improves cardiovascular and cognitive responses to stress.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2012Trial
- Slower motor speed as a predictor of suicide attempts in high-risk youth.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Structural and functional neuroimaging correlates of suicidal ideation in treatment-resistant major depressive disorder.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Suicidal ideation comes to surface: a Suicide Stem Completion Measurement for implicit suicide risk.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Neural Representations of Death-Related Concepts Identify Conceptual Alteration of Self in Suicidal Youth.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Physiological and cognitive reactivity to social exclusion among emerging adults with versus without a suicide attempt history.Psychiatry research communications · 2025Article
- Precise individual measures of inhibitory control.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Lower- versus higher-order suicide-related attentional processing measures as predictors of adolescent suicide ideation and attempt.Psychiatry research · 2025Article
- Dynamic impacts of sleep disruption on ecologically assessed affective, behavioral, and cognitive risk factors for suicide: a study protocol.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- Mental states and temperaments contributing to suicidal crisis in psychiatric inpatients: a cross-sectional and validation study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Suicide Ideation Severity and Oculomotor Avoidance of Suicide-Related Stimuli.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Article
- Understanding Compliance Rates in Suicide Research During the Post-Discharge Period.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Article
32 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
A long-standing challenge for scientific and clinical work on suicidal behavior is that people often are motivated to deny or conceal suicidal thoughts. The authors proposed that people considering suicide would possess an objectively measurable attentional bias toward suicide-related stimuli and that this bias would predict future suicidal behavior. Participants were 124 adults presenting to a psychiatric emergency department who were administered a modified emotional Stroop task and followed for 6 months. Suicide attempters showed an attentional bias toward suicide-related words relative to neutral words, and this bias was strongest among those who had made a more recent attempt. Importantly, this suicide-specific attentional bias predicted which people made a suicide attempt over the next 6 months, above and beyond other clinical predictors. Attentional bias toward more general negatively valenced words did not predict any suicide-related outcomes, supporting the specificity of the observed effect. These results suggest that suicide-specific attentional bias can serve as a behavioral marker for suicidal risk, and ultimately improve scientific and clinical work on suicide-related outcomes.
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