Attentional bias to negative affect moderates negative affect’s relationship with smoking abstinence.

Attentional control moderates relations between negative affect and neural correlates of action monitoring in adolescence.

This study examined the moderating role of attentional control on relations between negative affect and action monitoring event related potentials (ERPs) (error-related negativity (ERN) and N2) in a group of healthy adolescents (9 to 17 years old). These ERPs were recorded while participants completed a modified flanker task. Participants also completed the negative affect subscale of the Posit...

The relationship between smoking motives and smoking urges experienced in response to a negative affect induction.

INTRODUCTION The present study attempted to further elucidate the relationship between self-reported smoking motives and affect in college students. METHOD Smoking motives were measured via self-report, and following a laboratory negative affect (NA) mood induction, urge to smoke was assessed via three questions. Participants were college students (N=84) who reported smoking an average of 8.7...

Attentional bias toward negative information in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome.

OBJECTIVE In addition to central nervous sensitization, affect dysregulation constitutes an important factor in the pathogenesis of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). The present study is concerned with emotional influences on information processing in FMS. The hypothesis of attentional bias, i.e., selective processing of negatively connoted stimuli, was tested. METHODS Twenty-seven female FMS pati...

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Attentional bias towards negative affect stimuli and reactive aggression in male batterers.

Spouse abuse is listed as a V code in DSM-IV-TR and worthy of further clinical investigation, although research has focused predominantly on the victims of family violence rather than the batterers themselves. This study tests the hypotheses that (a) batterers have a neurocognitive bias favoring negative affect (aggressive) stimuli and (b) batterers are more characterized by reactive than proac...