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Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications.
Paula T Hertel1, Andrew Mathews2
1Trinity University phertel@trinity.edu ammathews@ucdavis.edu.
Summary
Cognitive bias modification (CBM) shows emotional biases in attention, interpretation, and memory contribute to emotional disorders. CBM techniques offer experimental tools to understand cognition-emotion interactions and causal relationships.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive psychology
- Clinical psychology
- Neuroscience
Background:
- Emotional biases in attention, interpretation, and memory are linked to emotional disorders.
- Cognitive bias modification (CBM) is a paradigm for studying and altering these biases.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the role of emotional biases in emotional disorders.
- To compare CBM paradigms with traditional learning and memory research.
- To examine cognition-emotion interactions from a functional perspective.
Main Methods:
- Review of existing research on emotional biases and their modification.
- Comparison of CBM techniques with experimental paradigms in learning and memory.
- Analysis of CBM goals in relation to other cognition-emotion interaction approaches.
Main Results:
- Emotional biases are not just associated with, but actively contribute to, emotional disorders.
- Similarities exist between CBM and older experimental paradigms.
- CBM provides a framework for evaluating assumptions about clinical phenomena.
Conclusions:
- CBM research highlights the causal role of cognitive processing in emotional disorders.
- Experimental evaluation of cognitive-emotion interactions is crucial.
- Functional perspective emphasizes the utility of CBM in understanding clinical phenomena.
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