Initiating and maintaining behavior change is key to the prevention and treatment of most
preventable chronic medical and psychiatric illnesses. The cultivation of mindfulness …

Contemporary advances in addiction neuroscience have paralleled increasing interest in
the ancient mental training practice of mindfulness meditation as a potential therapy for …

Though valuation processes are fundamental to survival of the human species, hedonic
dysregulation is at the root of an array of maladies, including addiction, stress, and chronic …

Experimental models identify the transition from choice to compulsivity as the main
mechanism underlying addiction. In behavioral addictions research, however, the adjective …

A growing number of individuals using online forums are attempting to abstain from
pornography (colloquially termed “rebooting”) due to self-perceived pornography-related …

Background and aims Recent research used attachment theory and the metacognitive tenet
as frameworks to explain problematic Facebook use (PFU). This study aims to test, in a …

In the present study, we investigated the role of desire thinking in problematic social media
use (PSMU) whilst accounting for negative affect, impulsivity, and thought suppression. A …

Background Desire thinking, impulsivity and suppression are psychological variables that
are intricately related to behavioral addictions. Bearing in mind the scarcity of data on desire …

Background and aims There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that problematic
Facebook use (PFU) is an emerging problem, particularly among adolescents. Although a …

In the current study we evaluated the psychometric properties of the Metacognitions about
Online Gaming Scale (MOGS), including its factor structure, reliability, and predictive validity …