Recent publications
Below you will find a list of CARE's most recent publications. 
This list will be updated periodically. For the latest news, please check individual researchers' Google Scholar profile (links via PEOPLE page).

2019/ in press

  • Alvares, G.A. & Chen, N.T.M. (equal first author), Notebaert, L., Granich, J., Mitchell, C., & Whitehouse, A.J.O. (in press). Brief social attention bias modification for children with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, doi: 10.1002/aur.2067
  • Notebaert, L., Jones, E., Clarke, P.J.F., Macleod, C. ​(in press). Trait anxiety and biased prospective memory for targets associated with negative future events . Cognitive Therapy and Research. doi: 10.1007%2Fs10608-018-9986-6
  • MacLeod, C. (in press). Anxiety-linked attentional bias: Backward glances and future glimpses. Cognition & Emotion. doi: 
  • 0.1080/02699931.2018.1551190
  • MacLeod, C., Grafton, B., and Notebaert, L. (in press). Anxiety-linked attentional bias: Is it reliable? Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. doi: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050718-095505
  • Akram, U., Milkins, B., Ypsilanti, A., Reidy, J., Lazuras, L., Stevenson, J., Notebaert, L., Barclay, N. (in press). The therapeutic potential of attentional bias modification training for insomnia: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 19(567). doi: 10.1186/s13063-018-2937-4
  • Notebaert, L., Grafton, B., Clarke, P.J.F., Rudaizky, D., Chen, N.T.M., & MacLeod, C. (in press). Emotion in Motion: A gamified approach for the modification of attentional bias. JMIR Serious Games.
  • Van Bockstaele, B., Notebaert, L., MacLeod, C., Salemink, E., Clarke, P.J.F., Verschuere, B., Bogels, S.M., Wiers, R.W. (in press). The Effects of Attentional Bias Modification Procedures on Emotion Regulation. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 
  • Notebaert, L., Georgiades, J. V., Herbert, M., Grafton, B., Parsons, S., Fox, E., & MacLeod, C. (in press). Trait anxiety and the alignment of attentional bias with controllability of danger. Psychological Research. doi: 10.1007/s00426-018-1081-9
  • Mergelsberg E.L.P., MacLeod C., Mullan B., Rudaizky D., Allom V., Houben K. & Lipp O.V. (2019). Food healthiness versus tastiness: Contrasting their impact on more and less successful healthy shoppers within a virtual food shopping task. Appetite, 133, 405-413. doi: 10.1016/ j.appet.2018.11.029.
  • Renner, F., Murphy, F. C., Ji, J. L., Manly, T., & Holmes, E. A. (2019). Mental imagery as a “motivational amplifier” to promote activities. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 114, 51-59. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2019.02.002
  • Ji, J. L., Kavanagh, D. J., Holmes, E. A., MacLeod, C., & Di Simplicio, M. (2019). Mental imagery in psychiatry: conceptual & clinical implications. CNS spectrums, 1-13. doi: 10.1017/S1092852918001487​

2018

  • ​Basanovic, J., Dean, L., Riskind, J. H., & MacLeod, C. (in press). High Spider-Fearful and Low Spider-Fearful Individuals Differentially Perceive the Speed of Approaching, but not Receding, Spider Stimuli. Cognitive Therapy and Research. doi: 10.1007/s10608-018-9970-1
  • Basanovic, J., Notebaert, L., Clarke, P. J. F., MacLeod, C., Jawinski, P., & Chen, N. T. M. (2018). Inhibitory attentional control in anxiety: Manipulating cognitive load in an antisaccade task. PLOS ONE, 13(10), e0205720. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205720
  • Ji, J. L., Holmes, E.A., MacLeod, C., & Murphy F.C. (2018). Spontaneous cognition in dysphoria: reduced positive bias in imagining the future. Psychological Research. doi: 10.1007/s0042 6-018-1071-y
  • Grafton, B., MacLeod, C., Rudaizky, D., Holmes, E.A., Salemink, E., Fox, E., & Notebaert, L. (2018). In defence of experimental medicine: Author's reply. British Journal of Psychology, 2018, 246​-247. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2018.42

2017

  • Basanovic, J., Dean, L., Riskind, J. & MacLeod, C. (2017). Direction of stimulus movement alters fear-linked individual differences in attentional vigilance to spider stimuli. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 9, 117-123. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2017.10.004
  • Tadic, D., MacLeod, C., Cabeleira, C., Wuthrich, V., Rapee, R., Bucks, Romola (2017). Age differences in negative and positive expectancy bias in comorbid depression and anxiety. Cognition and Emotion. doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2017.1414688
  • Chen., N.  Basanovic, J., Notebaert, N., MacLeod, C., & Clarke, P. (2017). Attentional bias mediates the effect of neurostimulation on emotional vulnerability. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 93, 12-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2017.05.008
  • Heitmann, J., van Hemel-Ruiter, M., Vermeulen, K. M., Ostafin, B., MacLeod, C., Wiers, R. W., DeFuentes-Merillas, L., Fledderus, M., Markus, W.,& de Jong, P. (2017) Internet-based attentional bias modification training as add-on to regular treatment in alcohol and cannabis dependent outpatients: a study protocol of a randomized control trial. BMC Psychiatry,  17, 193. doi: 10.1186/s12888-017-1359-2 
  • Harvold, M., MacLeod, C., & Vaegter, H. B. (2017). Attentional avoidance is associated with increased pain sensitivity in patients with chronic posttraumatic pain and comorbid posttraumatic stress. Clinical Journal of Pain. doi: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000505
  • Ji, J., Grafton, B. & MacLeod, C. (2017). Referential focus moderates depression-linked attentional avoidance of positive information. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 93, 47 – 54.
  • Grafton, B., MacLeod, C. Rudaizky, D., Holmes, E. A., Salemink, E., Fox, E. & Notebaert, L. (2017).  Confusing procedures with process when appraising the impact of cognitive bias modification (CBM) on emotional vulnerability. British Journal of Psychiatry. 211, 266-271. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.115.176123
  • Baumert, A., Schmitt, N., Perugini, M., Johnson, M., Blum, G., Borkenau, P., Constantini, G., Denissen, J., Fleeson, W., Grafton, B., Jayawickreme, E., Kruzius, E., MacLeod, C., Miller, L., Read, S., Robinson, M., Roberts, B., Wood, D., & Wrzus, C.  (2017). Working towards integration of personality, structure, process and development. European Journal of Personality, 31, 529–595. doi: 10.1002/per.2128 
  • Blackwell, S. E., Woud, M. L. & MacLeod, C. (2017). A question of control: Examining the role of control conditions in experimental psychopathology using the example of cognitive bias modification research. Spanish Journal of Psychology.
  • Baumert, A., Schmitt, N., Perugini, M., Johnson, M., Blum, G., Borkenau, P., Constantini, G., Denissen, J., Fleeson, W., Grafton, B., Jayawickreme, E., Kruzius, E., MacLeod, C., Miller, L., Read, S., Robinson, M., Roberts, B., Wood, D., & Wrzus, C.  (2017). Integrating personality structure, personality process, and personality development. European Journal of Personality, 31, 503-528. doi: 10.1002/per.2115  
  • Clarke, P. J. K., Branson, S., Chen, N. T. M., van Bockstaele, B., Salemenk, E., MacLeod, C., Notebaert, L. (2017).  Attention bias modification training under working memory load increases the magnitude of change in attentional bias. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 57, 25 – 31.
  • Fang, L., Hoorelbeke, K., Bruyneel, L., Notebaert, L., MacLeod, C., DeRaedt, R., Koster, E.H.W. (2017). Can training change attentional breadth? Failure to find transfer effects. Psychological Research. doi: 10.1007/s00426-017-0845-y
  • Valenas, S.P., Szentagotai-Tatar, A., Grafton, B., Notebaert, L., Miu, A.C., MacLeod, C. (2017). Prediction of pre-exam state anxiety from ruminative disposition:The mediating role of impaired attentional disengagement from negative information. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 91, 102 – 110. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2017.01.014
  • Notebaert, L., Clarke, P. & MacLeod, C. (2017). When a bad bias can be good: Anxiety-linked attentional bias to threat in contexts where dangers can be avoided. Clinical Psychological Science,  5(3),  485-496.
  • Cabrera, I., Montorio, I. & MacLeod, C. (2017). Anxiety-linked differences in older adults’ interpretation of ambiguous information. Cognition and Emotion. 41, 508 – 517. doi:10.1007/s10608-016-9824-7
  • Grafton, B. & MacLeod, C. (2017). Attentional bias and well-being: How the bias that feels best can be bad for us. In Gruber, J. (Ed). The Oxford Handbook of Positive Emotion and Psychopathology. Oxford University Press.
  • Cheie, L., MacLeod, C. Miclea, M & Visu-Petra, L. (2017). When children forget to remember: Effects of reduced working memory availability on prospective memory performance. Memory & Cognition, 45, 651 – 663. doi: 10.3758/s13421-016-0682-z
  • Bebbington, K., MacLeod, C., Hurlstone, T. M. & Fay, N. (2017). The sky is falling: Evidence of a negativity bias in the social transmission of information. Evolution and Human Behavior. 38, 92 – 101. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.07.004
  • Hadwin, J. A., Visu-Petra, L., Muris, P., Derakshan, N. & MacLeod, C. (2016).  Introduction to the special issue: Understanding the role of attentional control in the development of anxiety in childhood, adolescence and across the lifespan. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 7(3), 277-295.
  • Notebaert, L. J., Austin, H., de Jong, P. J., Kemps, E., MacLeod, C. &  Wiers, R. (2016). The interplay between emotion and biased cognitive processing in problematic consumption. In R. Menzies, M. Kyrios & N. Kazantzis (Eds)., Innovations and Future Directions in the Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies. Australian Academic Press: Canberra.  
  • MacLeod, C. & Grafton, B. (2016). Anxiety-linked attentional bias and its modification: Illustrating the importance of distinguishing processes and procedures in experimental psychopathology research. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 86, 68 - 86. DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2016.07.005
  • Grafton, B., Visu-Petra, L., Mărcuș O., Liebregts, H. & MacLeod, C. (2016). Controlling the bias: Inhibitory attentional control moderates the association between social anxiety and selective attentional responding to negative social information in children and adolescents. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 7(3), 423–436. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.5127/jep.055916
  • Grafton, B. & MacLeod, C. (2016). A positive perspective on attentional bias: Positive affectivity and attentional bias to positive information. Journal of Happiness Studies. DOI: 10.1007/s10902-016-9761-x

2016

  • Notebaert, L., Clarke, P. J. F., & MacLeod, C. (2016). Does attentional bias to threat ameliorate or exacerbate the detrimental effect of trait anxiety on behavioural preparedness for real-world danger? Australian Journal of Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/ajpy.12133
  • Grafton, B., Losch, A., & MacLeod, C. (2016). One small step towards the spider, but a giant leap in anxiety: Biased attentional responding to spider stimuli causally contributes to the rate of growth in state anxiety during spider approach. Australian Journal of Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/ajpy.12140
  • Basanovic, J. & MacLeod, C. (2016): Does anxiety-linked attentional bias to threatening information reflect bias in the setting of attentional goals, or bias in the execution of attentional goals?, Cognition and Emotion, DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1138931
  • Howell, J. A., McEvoy, P. M., Grafton, B., MacLeod, C., Kane, R. T., Anderson, R. A. & Egan, S. J. (2016). Selective attention in perfectionism: Dissociating valence from perfectionism-relevance.  Journal of Behaviour Therapy  and  Experimental Psychiatry, 51, 100-108.
  • Milkins, B., Notebaert, L., MacLeod, C. & Clarke, P.J.F. (2016). The potential benefits of targeted attentional bias modification on cognitive arousal and sleep quality in worry-related sleep disturbance. Clinical Psychological Science. 
  • Grafton, B. & MacLeod, C. (2016).  Engaging with the wrong people: The basis of selective attention to negative faces in social anxiety. Clinical Psychological Science.
  • Large, B., Clarke, P.J.F., MacLeod, C., & Notebaert, L. (2016). It’s all about control: Memory bias in anxiety is restricted to threat cues that signal controllable danger. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology.
  • Clarke, P. J. F., Bedford, K., Notebaert, L., Bucks, R., Rudaizky, D., Milkins & MacLeod, C. (2016). Assessing the therapeutic potential of targeted attentional bias modification for insomnia using smartphone delivery. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 85,187-189 (Supplementary material available here)
  • Maltese, S., Baumert, A., Schmitt, M. J. &  MacLeod, C. (2016). How victim sensitivity leads to uncooperative behavior via expectancies of injustice. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02059
  • Grafton, B., Southworth, K., MacLeod, C. & Watkins, E., &   (2016).  Heightened ruminative disposition is associated with impaired attentional disengagement from negative relative to positive information: support for the “impaired disengagement” hypothesis. Cognition and Emotion.  doi.10.1080/02699931.2015.1124843
  • Chen, N., Clarke, P. F., MacLeod, C., Hickie, I. & Guastella, A. (2016). Aberrant gaze patterns in social anxiety disorder: An eye movement assessment during public speaking. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 7, 1-17. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5127/jep.040313
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