Journal Articles Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Year : 2020

Attentional bias modification with a new paradigm: The effect of the Detection Engagement and Savoring Positivity (DESP) task on eye-tracking of attention

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Background and Objectives: We test the effect of a new attentional bias modification (ABM) task - the Detection Engagement and Savoring Positivity (DESP) task - on attentional biases. The DESP is innovative in that it involves a procedure of savoring the positivity of various pictures. Methods: Participants were randomly assigned to the DESP or to a placebo control condition (experiment 1; n = 38) or a condition controlling for savoring (experiment 2; n = 54) in a prepost/training experimental design. During one week, the participants completed the DESP or the control task once a day between three and six times. We assessed the effects of the DESP task on various attentional biases (i.e. positive, negative and threat) by computing dwell time from an eye-tracking technology before and after the training, and also one week after the post-training session in experiment 2. Results: In both experiments, the attentional bias toward positive stimuli between the pre- and the post-training increased significantly more in the DESP task condition than in the control conditions. Negative and threat attentional biases were not significantly affected by the experimental manipulations. Experiment 2 revealed that the DESP task – including the savoring instruction - increased significantly more the positive attentional bias than a task excluding this step and that this effect remained significant one week after the post-training session. Limitations: Our samples were mainly composed of women participants. This prevents generalization of the findings. Conclusions: The DESP task offers promising perspectives for sustainably improving attention to positive information.
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hal-02981028 , version 1 (13-11-2020)

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Maya Corman, Deborah Aubret, Joanne Ghazal, Mickael Berthon, Pierre Chausse, et al.. Attentional bias modification with a new paradigm: The effect of the Detection Engagement and Savoring Positivity (DESP) task on eye-tracking of attention. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 2020, 68, pp.101525. ⟨10.1016/j.jbtep.2019.101525⟩. ⟨hal-02981028⟩
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