Reward-related attentional capture is associated with severity of addictive and obsessive-compulsive behaviors.

ABSTRACT: A cue that signals reward can capture attention and elicit approach behaviors in people and animals. The current study examined whether attentional capture by reward-related cues is associated with severity of addiction-related and obsessive-compulsive behaviors. Participants were recruited via Mechanical Turk and included 143 adults (M_age = 34 years, SD = 8.5; 43% female) who had endorsed at least 1 addiction-related or obsessive-compulsive behavior in the past month. All assessment components were delivered via the Internet and included questionnaires to assess severity of compulsivity-related problems across addiction-related and obsessive-compulsive behaviors, as well as a visual search task to measure reward-related attentional capture. Reward-related attentio

SUBMITTER: Albertella L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6681689 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature