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Quigley L, Russell K, Yung C, Dobson K, Sears C
Cogn Emot . 2024 Dec; :1-18. PMID: 39660686
Rumination is a key feature of depression and contributes to its onset, maintenance, and recurrence. Researchers have proposed that biases in the attentional processing of emotional information may underlie rumination,...
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Drake A, Sears C
PLoS One . 2023 Dec; 18(12):e0295995. PMID: 38109367
Research has found that humour styles can moderate the relationship between various facets of mental health and well-being. Most of these studies have used college student samples, however, and the...
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Quigley L, Dobson K, Russell K, Sears C
Behav Res Methods . 2023 Oct; 56(5):5086-5102. PMID: 37801214
The negative affective priming (NAP) task is a behavioral measure of inhibition of emotional stimuli. Previous studies using the NAP task have found that individuals with depression show reduced inhibition...
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Coelho S, Sears C, Kim H, McGrath D
Addict Behav . 2022 Dec; 139:107575. PMID: 36528963
Attentional biases for gambling-related stimuli are a robust correlate of problem gambling. Free-viewing eye-tracking paradigms are considered the gold standard for measuring attentional bias in addiction research, but their reliability...
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Tobin L, Sears C, von Ranson K
J Consult Clin Psychol . 2022 Nov; 90(12):911-924. PMID: 36395030
Objective: This cluster randomized controlled trial evaluated the efficacy of participation in the Body Project-a cognitive-dissonance-based preventive intervention that reduces self-reported body dissatisfaction-for reducing body-dissatisfaction-related attentional biases. We hypothesized that...
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Kim H, Ritchie E, Sears C, Hodgins D, Kowatch K, McGrath D
J Behav Addict . 2022 Jul; 11(2):386-395. PMID: 35895477
Background And Aims: Attentional bias to gambling-related stimuli is associated with increased severity of gambling disorder. However, the addiction-related moderators of attentional bias among those who gamble are largely unknown....
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Fitzpatrick C, Kim H, Sears C, McGrath D
Nicotine Tob Res . 2022 Apr; 24(9):1439-1447. PMID: 35443034
Introduction: This study examined attentional bias (AB) to e-cigarette cues among a sample of non-smoking daily e-cigarette users (n = 27), non-smoking occasional e-cigarette users (n = 32), and control...
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Kim H, Sears C, Hodgins D, Ritchie E, Kowatch K, McGrath D
Psychol Addict Behav . 2021 Mar; 35(8):961-973. PMID: 33749291
Attentional biases (ABs) have been shown to develop in the context of substance use disorders. Relatively less focus has been paid toward the development of ABs in behavioral addictions such...
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Tobin L, Sears C, Zumbusch A, von Ranson K
PLoS One . 2018 Feb; 13(2):e0192914. PMID: 29447251
Understanding the cognitive processes underlying body dissatisfaction provides important information on the development and perpetuation of eating pathology. Previous research suggests that body-dissatisfied women process weight-related information differently than body-satisfied...
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McGrath D, Meitner A, Sears C
PLoS One . 2018 Feb; 13(1):e0190614. PMID: 29385164
A growing body of research indicates that gamblers develop an attentional bias for gambling-related stimuli. Compared to research on substance use, however, few studies have examined attentional biases in gamblers...