ATTENTIONAL BIASES AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH SUBSTANCE-USE-RELATED PROBLEMS AND ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS: THE UTILITY OF A GAMIFIED VALUE-MODULATED ATTENTIONAL CAPTURE TASK

Attentional Biases and Their Association with Substance-Use-Related Problems and Addictive Behaviors: The Utility of a Gamified Value-Modulated Attentional Capture Task

Background: Attentional Robotics biases towards reward stimuli have been implicated in substance use-related problems.The value-modulated attentional capture (VMAC) task assesses such reward-related biases.The VMAC task widely used in lab studies tends to be monotonous and susceptible to low effort.We therefore tested a gamified online version of t

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Socio-structural Injustice, Racism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Precarious Entanglement among Black Immigrants in Canada

As several commentators and researchers have noted since late spring 2020, COVID-19 has laid bare the connections between Umbrellas entrenched structurally generated inequalities on one hand, and on the other hand relatively high degrees of susceptibility to contracting COVID-19 on the part of economically marginalized population segments.Far from

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The Generalization of Conscious Attentional Avoidance in Response to Threat Among Breast Cancer Women With Persistent Distress

ObjectivesA sample of women with persistent distress following breast cancer (BC) previously exhibited attentional bias (AB) away from supraliminally presented cancer-or threat-related information, responses consistent with avoidance coping, and showed negative interpretation bias.Here, we attempt to characterize the nature of supraliminal AB and i

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