Development of Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) Tools to Promote Adjustment during Reintegration Following Deployment
Abstract
The overarching goal of the current grant is to develop valid and reliable computerized tools to measure and modify anger-related cognitive biases and ultimately to examine their efficiency in reducing anger and adjustment difficulties among soldiers returning from deployment. The first aim of the research, addressed in Study 1, was to measure the associations between state and trait anger and biases in anger-related attention and interpretation. During the past year, 211 undergraduate students were recruited and participated in Study 1. The key findings so far suggest that in a sub-group tested on a faces-based dot probe task (N=101), significant associations were found between attention bias toward angry faces and self-reported anger and aggression measures, as well as between attention bias toward angry faces and the tendency to judge more faces as angry rather than happy in an emotion detection task. In addition, a significant positive correlation was found between self-reported anger and aggression and the tendency to judge faces as angry faster than as happy in the emotion detection task. These results indicate that the main thrust of the grant is now grounded in evidence of significant associations between low-level cognition measured via implicit performance on computerized tasks and self-reported anger and aggression. Thus, we can now move forward devising and testing cognitive modification tools
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA600556
Entities
People
- Yair Bar-Haim
Organizations
- Tel Aviv University