Ben Grafton, PhD, Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia; Colin MacLeod, PhD, Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, School of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania; Daniel Rudaizky, PhD, Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia; Emily A. Holmes, PhD, Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK, and Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Elske Salemink, PhD, Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Elaine Fox, PhD, Oxford Centre for Emotion and Affective Neuroscience, and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK; Lies Notebaert, PhD, Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia
Ben Grafton, PhD, Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia; Colin MacLeod, PhD, Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, School of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania; Daniel Rudaizky, PhD, Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia; Emily A. Holmes, PhD, Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK, and Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Elske Salemink, PhD, Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Elaine Fox, PhD, Oxford Centre for Emotion and Affective Neuroscience, and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK; Lies Notebaert, PhD, Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia.
Br J Psychiatry. 2017 Nov;211(5):266-271. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.115.176123.
If meta-analysis is to provide valuable answers, then it is critical to ensure clarity about the questions being asked. Here, we distinguish two important questions concerning cognitive bias modification research that are not differentiated in the meta-analysis recently published by Cristea (2015) in this journal: (1) do the varying procedures that investigators have employed with the intention of modifying cognitive bias, on average, significantly impact emotional vulnerability?; and (2) does the process of successfully modifying cognitive bias, on average, significantly impact emotional vulnerability? We reanalyse the data from Cristea to address this latter question. Our new analyses demonstrate that successfully modifying cognitive bias does significantly alter emotional vulnerability. We revisit Cristea 's conclusions in light of these findings.
如果元分析要提供有价值的答案，那么确保所提出的问题清晰至关重要。在这里，我们区分了最近 Cristea 在该杂志上发表的元分析中没有区分的两个关于认知偏差修正研究的重要问题：（1）研究人员为了修正认知偏差而采用的不同程序，平均而言，是否会显著影响情绪脆弱性？；（2）成功修正认知偏差的过程，平均而言，是否会显著影响情绪脆弱性？我们重新分析了 Cristea 的数据来解决后一个问题。我们的新分析表明，成功修正认知偏差确实会显著改变情绪脆弱性。我们根据这些发现重新审视了 Cristea 的结论。
