Attention-bias task

Dot-probe: does your attention get caught by words that matter to you?

A research paradigm from the craving/anxiety literature: two words flash left and right, then a dot replaces one of them, and you hit the matching key as fast as you can. If attention was already parked on the personally-loaded word, you're a few milliseconds faster when the dot lands there. Self-demonstration only — dot-probe bias scores are famously unreliable at the individual level, so treat the result as a feel for the paradigm, not a measurement of you. Keyboard only; nothing recorded or stored.

Four words that pull at you

Personally loaded words — a habit, a worry, a craving. They stay in this tab and vanish on close.

Then: hands on F (left) and J (right). 40 quick trials, about two minutes.

The classic finding is a small group-level speedup toward personally relevant cues. Individual scores bounce around heavily between sittings — which is exactly why this lives on the demonstration shelf.