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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 (Mage = 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 addictionrelated and obsessive-compulsive behaviors, as well as a visual search task to measure reward-related attentional capture. Reward-related attentional capture was associated with severity of compulsivity, transdiagnostically. These findings have implications for understanding the mechanisms that underlie compulsive behaviors and suggest that reward-related attentional capture is a promising transdiagnostic cognitive risk marker for compulsivity.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 495-502 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Psychology of Addictive Behaviors |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2019 |
Keywords
- Addiction
- Compulsivity
- Reward learning
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