Cognitive bias modificationsocial anxietyinterpretation biasmental imageryvividnessCBM-I is an efficacious intervention for modulating social anxiety-related biases and symptoms.Mental imagery ability in emotional feelings facilitated the efficacy of CBM-I....
In other words, a cognitive bias is a certain, often erroneous, thinking pattern we lean on when musing over a problem. It is our brain’s way of expediting information processing. So that we can quickly make sense of what we are seeing. Helpful in theory, biases often end up problematic...
Cognitive bias research draws upon the notion that altered information processing is key for understanding psychological functioning and well-being. However, little attention has been paid to the question of whether the frequently used experimental paradigms hold adequate psychometric properties. The present...
In addition, we believe that subjective data can illuminate aspects of cognitive processing that may not be revealed in traditional dependent measures, such as RTs and error rates. Hence, in a series of experiments, we examined the sub- jective effects from different kinds of cognitive interfer-...
The duration of each pseudosentence was approximately 1 to 2 sec. Four kinds of emotional prosodies, i.e., fearful, angry, happy and neutral prosodies, were examined in this study. In order to construct four 15-sec segments for the four emotional conditions, we concatenated, separately, ...
Planning Frontal midline theta frequency band (FMΘ) Prefrontal cortex Frontopolar cortex Mid-cingulate cortex Anterior cingulate cortex Cognitive control 1. Introduction Cognitive control or executive functions are a theoretical construct that includes a wide range of higher-order cognitive functions associa...
Most real-world decisions involve a delicate balance between exploring unfamiliar alternatives and committing to the best known option. Previous work has shown that humans rely on different forms of uncertainty to negotiate this "explore-exploit” trade-
As mentioned earlier, different students expect and contest for different learning methods. Therefore, it is almost impossible for a teacher to mold its style of teaching in a universally acceptable way to cater to all kinds of students. Which is where the VARK model comes in to play. ...
Social norms and self-efficacy play important roles in promoting consistent condom use among men who have sex with men (MSM). Few studies have investigated the association between social norms, self-efficacy and consistent condom use with different kinds
The duration of each pseudosentence was approximately 1 to 2 sec. Four kinds of emotional prosodies, i.e., fearful, angry, happy and neutral prosodies, were examined in this study. In order to construct four 15-sec segments for the four emotional conditions, we concatenated, separately, ...