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Seeking neutral: A VR-based person-identity-matching task for attentional bias modification - A randomised controlled experiment.
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- Anna vs. Judith: A randomized comparison of AI-delivered psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapies for social anxiety disorder.Internet interventions · 2026Article
- The end of "logging in": The next 10 years of internet interventions.Internet interventions · 2026Article
- Virtual reality based attentional bias modification training for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: a feasibility study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- An exploratory study of the effect of age and gender on face scanning during affect recognition in immersive virtual reality.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Efficacy of a smartphone-based Cognitive Bias Modification program for emotion regulation: A randomized-controlled crossover trial.Internet interventions · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundAttentional bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce anxiety by attenuating bias towards threatening information. The current study incorporated virtual reality (VR) technology and 3-dimensional stimuli with a person-identity-matching (PIM) task to evaluate the effects of a VR-based ABM training on attentional bias and anxiety symptoms.
methodsOne hundred participants with elevated social anxiety were randomised to four training groups. Attentional bias was assessed at pre- and post-training, and anxiety symptoms were assessed at pre-training, post-training, 1-week follow-up, and 3-month follow-up.
resultsChange in anxiety did not correlate with change in bias (
conclusionsA single session of VR-based PIM task did not change attentional bias. The significant reduction in anxiety was not specific to active training, and the majority of participants remained clinically unchanged.
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