The past decade has witnessed a surge in research on training paradigms aimed at directly
influencing cognitive processes in addiction and other psychopathology. Broadly, two …

Objectives: The purpose of this article is to critically evaluate the following claims derived
from contemporary theoretical models of attentional bias (AB) for food-and drug-related …

Over the past several years, the concept of automaticity of higher cognitive processes has
permeated nearly all domains of psychological research. In this review, we highlight insights …

The majority of adults in the UK and US are overweight or obese due to multiple factors
including excess energy intake. Training people to inhibit simple motor responses (key …

Inhibitory control training (ICT) is a novel intervention in which participants learn to associate
appetitive cues with inhibition of behaviour. We present a meta-analytic investigation of …

Theories of eating regulation often attribute overweight to a malfunction of homeostatic
regulation of body weight. With the goal conflict model of eating, we present a new …

According to dual-process models, excessive alcohol use emerges when response
inhibition ability is insufficient to inhibit automatic impulses to drink alcohol. This study …

When inhibitory control is lacking, people are more prone to indulge in high calorie food.
This research examined whether training to inhibit food-related responses renders one less …

With the obesity epidemic being largely attributed to overeating, much research has been
aimed at understanding the psychological causes of overeating and using this knowledge to …

For centuries, human self-control has fascinated scientists and nonscientists alike. Current
theories often attribute it to an executive control system. But even though executive control …