Attention Bias Modification Training for Social Phobia (ABMSP)

The ABMT is aimed to modify attentional bias for negative stimuli in social anxiety by deliberately inducing the participant's attention to positive or neutral stimuli. In the training, after a pair of facial stimuli (e.g., threatening-neutral, neutral-neutral) are presented, a left or right arrow appears in one of the location. Participants are instructed to press the button in the correct direction as quickly and accurately as possible.

The general attention control training aimed to improve participants' general attention control ability by asking them to press a left or right arrow in the correct direction. The basic design of attention control training is the same as the ABMT, but the attention control training does not aim to alter the direction of attention toward or away from certain stimuli.