Trial reportBiological psychology2017
The beneficial effects of a positive attention bias amongst children with a history of psychosocial deprivation.
Trial report in Biological psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Deficits in error monitoring are associated with externalizing but not internalizing behaviors among children with a history of institutionalization.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2016Trial
- Dimensions of Early-Life Adversity and Attention Biases in Childhood and Adolescence: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Review
- A look at the free-viewing paradigm in eye-tracking research to assess positive attentional bias.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Heightened response to positive facial cues as a potential marker of resilience following childhood adversity.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- The Moderation Effect of Cognitive Tendencies on the Relationship Between Fear of COVID-19 and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Chinese Children.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2023Article
- Early social adversity modulates the relation between attention biases and socioemotional behaviour in juvenile macaques.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- What was learned from studying the effects of early institutional deprivation.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2021Review
- Attention bias to reward predicts behavioral problems and moderates early risk to externalizing and attention problems.Development and psychopathology · 2020Article
- Mechanisms linking childhood adversity with psychopathology: Learning as an intervention target.Behaviour research and therapy · 2019Review
- Leveraging translational neuroscience to inform early intervention and addiction prevention for children exposed to early life stress.Neurobiology of stress · 2018Review
- Neural and Cognitive Factors Influencing the Emergence of Psychopathology: Insights From the Bucharest Early Intervention Project.Child development perspectives · 2018Article
- Effects of Early Neglect Experience on Recognition and Processing of Facial Expressions: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2018Review
- Vigilance, the Amygdala, and Anxiety in Youths with a History of Institutional Care.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2017Article
- Alternatives for abandoned children: insights from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project.Current opinion in psychology · 2017Review
- Positive valence bias and parent-child relationship security moderate the association between early institutional caregiving and internalizing symptoms.Development and psychopathology · 2017Article
- A developmental neuroscience perspective on affect-biased attention.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2016Review
- Neurobiological Programming of Early Life Stress: Functional Development of Amygdala-Prefrontal Circuitry and Vulnerability for Stress-Related Psychopathology.Current topics in behavioral neurosciencesArticle
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Abstract
Children raised in institutions experience psychosocial deprivation that has detrimental influences on attention and mental health. The current study examined patterns of attention biases in children from institutions who were randomized at approximately 21.6 months to receive either a high-quality foster care intervention or care-as-usual. At age 12, children performed a dot-probe task and indices of attention bias were calculated. Additionally, children completed a social stress paradigm and cortisol reactivity was computed. Children randomized into foster care (N=40) exhibited an attention bias toward positive stimuli but not threat, whereas children who received care-as-usual (N=40) and a never-institutionalized comparison group (N=47) showed no bias. Stability of foster care placement was related to positive bias, while instability of foster care placement was related to threat bias. The magnitude of the positive bias was associated with fewer internalizing problems and better coping mechanisms. Within the foster care group, positive attention bias was related to less blunted cortisol reactivity.
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