Dr David George D.George@hull.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer and Head of Psychology
An attentional bias approach to understanding and reducing the psychosocial burden of psoriasis
People Involved
Dr Henning Holle H.Holle@hull.ac.uk
Reader in Psychology / Leader of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience group (https://www.hull.ac.uk/neuroscience)
Attentional bias in psoriasis: The role of processing time and emotional valence (2023)
Journal Article
Etty, S., George, D. N., van Laarhoven, A., Kleyn, C. E., Walton, S., & Holle, H. (online). Attentional bias in psoriasis: The role of processing time and emotional valence. British Journal of Health Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12712Purpose: The present study explored whether people with psoriasis display an attentional bias towards disease-related threat words and whether this bias occurs relatively early during the phase of stimulus disengagement, or during a later maintained... Read More about Attentional bias in psoriasis: The role of processing time and emotional valence.
Acute itch induces attentional avoidance of itch-related information (2022)
Journal Article
Etty, S., George, D. N., van Laarhoven, A., & Holle, H. (2022). Acute itch induces attentional avoidance of itch-related information. Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 102, adv00691. https://doi.org/10.2340/actadv.v102.1626Attention is known to modulate itch intensity. In contrast, the reverse relationship, i.e. the degree to which the presence of an acute itch affects attention, is currently not well understood. The aims of this study were to investigate whether acute... Read More about Acute itch induces attentional avoidance of itch-related information.