Following successful outcomes of cognitive bias modification (CBM) programs for alcoholism in clinical and community samples, the present study investigated whether different varieties of CBM (attention control training and approach-bias re...

Addiction research shows that when a person abuses a substance they display an attentional bias (AB) for information in their environment relating to this substance. That is, they direct their attention towards such information and process it more...

Nature's Correspondence items are reviewed only by the editors (see go.nature.com/cmchno). To investigate whether editorial bias towards internationally renowned correspondents might be at play in selecting candidates for publication, we analysed...

Evidence suggests that attentional bias plays a vital role in the continuation and relapsing to health threatening behaviors, such as substance abuse and unhealthy diet. We tested whether Food Attention Control Training Program (FACTP) on can help...

Addiction research suggests that attentional bias for addiction-related stimuli may contribute to or help to maintain the addictive behaviour. This study attempts to identify the causal links between food-related attentional biases (FABs), tendency...