Testing the Effectiveness of a Gamified Emotional Cognitive Bias Modification Task as an Intervention for Low Mood: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emotion recognition bias in depression is well-documented and is proposed to play a causal role in depression. A cognitive bias modification (CBM) intervention targeting the bias in emotional expression perception was developed, but despite robust training effects on emotion perception, the effect on mood was unreliable and weak. We propose a new gamified cognitive bias modification (GCBM) to address potential limitations that may attenuate therapeutic effects.

Objective

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a single session of GCBM on emotion perception and to assess whether the gamified version of the task would produce the same robust training effects on the interpretation of emotional expressions as the original CBM. The second aim was to compar

SUBMITTER: Kuruoglu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12061347 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature