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Cognitive Bias Modification Training Helps Teenagers Reduce Excessive Anxiety Through Positive Social Interpretations

Training teenagers to look at social situations positively could help those with anxiety and may help prevent problems persisting into adult life, new research from Oxford University is beginning to suggest. The researchers found that tasks designed to prompt either positive or negative interpretations of unclear situations can shift how healthy teenagers think about such […]

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Cognitive-Bias Modification Therapy Helps Addicts Develop An ‘Avoidance Bias’

Alcoholism is a tough addiction to kick. Eventually, most people return to drinking. But some Dutch and German psychological scientists have tested a short-term regime, called Cognitive-Bias Modification Therapy, that promises to help alcoholics stay sober. Their study is published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association of Psychological Science.

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