Shifting Episodic Prediction With Online Cognitive Bias Modification: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: Negative future thinking pervades emotional disorders. This hybrid efficacy-effectiveness trial tested a four-session, scalable online cognitive bias modification program for training more positive episodic prediction. 958 adults (73.3% female, 86.5% White, 83.4% from United States) were randomized to positive conditions with ambiguous future scenarios that ended positively, 50/50 conditions that ended positively or negatively, or a control condition with neutral scenarios. As hypothesized (preregistration: https://osf.io/jrst6), positive training participants improved more than control participants in negative expectancy bias (d = -0.58), positive expectancy bias (d = 0.80), and self-efficacy (d = 0.29). Positive training was also superior to 50/50 training for expect

SUBMITTER: Eberle JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10513109 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature