Trial reportJournal of affective disorders2014
Optimizing the ingredients for imagery-based interpretation bias modification for depressed mood: is self-generation more effective than imagination alone?
Trial report in Journal of affective disorders, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Positive imagery training increases positive self-referent cognition in depression.Behaviour research and therapy · 2018Trial
- Training less threatening interpretations over the Internet: Does the number of missing letters matter?Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry · 2015Trial
- Machine learning meta-analysis identifies individual characteristics moderating cognitive intervention efficacy for anxiety and depression symptoms.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Cognitive bias modification for social anxiety: protocol for a living systematic review of human studies and meta-analysis.Wellcome open research · 2024Article
- Which variations of a brief cognitive bias modification session for interpretations lead to the strongest effects?Cognitive therapy and research · 2021Article
- Neural correlates of cognitive bias modification for interpretation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Article
- Positive Imagery-Based Cognitive Bias Modification as a Web-Based Treatment Tool for Depressed Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2015Article
- Thinking Back about a Positive Event: The Impact of Processing Style on Positive Affect.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2015Article
- Mental Imagery-Based Training to Modify Mood and Cognitive Bias in Adolescents: Effects of Valence and Perspective.Cognitive therapy and researchArticle
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Abstract
Negative interpretation is thought to be crucial in the development and maintenance of depression. Recently developed cognitive bias modification paradigms, intending to change these biases towards a more optimistic interpretation tendency (CBM-I), seem to offer new promising implications for cognitive therapy innovation. This study aimed to increase our knowledge of the underlying mechanisms of action of imagery-based CBM-I in the context of depressed mood. We therefore compared the efficacy of CBM-I requiring participants to imagine standardized positive resolutions to a novel, more active training version that required participants to generate the positive interpretations themselves. Fifty-four participants were randomly allocated to (1) standardized CBM-I, (2) self-generation CBM-I or (3) a control group. Outcome measures included self-report mood measures and a depression-related interpretation bias measure. Both positive training variants significantly increased the tendency to interpret fresh ambiguous material in an optimistic manner. However, only the standardized imagery CBM-I paradigm positively influenced mood.
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