Trial-level bias score versus mean bias score: Comparison of the reliability and external validity using dot-probe task among daily smokers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Attentional bias (AB) is an individual difference risk factor that represents the extent to which cigarette cues capture one's attention. AB is typically indexed by mean bias score (MBS), theoretically assuming that AB is static. However, poor reliability of MBS has threatened valid interpretation of the results on AB. Based on observed trial-by-trial temporal fluctuation and variability of attentional allocation, trial-level bias score (TLBS) has been introduced as an alternative index with evidence of better psychometric properties in various populations, as compared to MBS. However, such evidence is limited among daily smokers. The current study aimed to replicate and extend extant findings in a sample of daily smokers by hypothesizing that TLBS, as compared to MBS,

SUBMITTER: Yang MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10757633 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature