You will be editting and there are comments made by my professor to make the paper better
Examination of social media related attentional biases in Instagram users using the Flicker Induced Change Blindness Paradigm
• (1)The starting section should have the pervasiveness of social media and have some statistics to back that up (sources in the last 10 yrs).
• (2)Section for the increasing discussion as to whether it can be considered addictive in the literature, including the DSM’s position on this, there should be
evidence for and against views in this section
• (3)Section on Incentive sensitization theory as a key theory in substance addiction literature and include Franken (2003) position on this theory
o Talk about what the theory proposes, its thoughts on cravings, what Franken (2003) suggests about substance related attentional biases and subjective
craving having a mutual excitatory relationship
o Also talk about Robinson & Berridge (1993) perspective on attentional bias and cravings within this theory
o How both perspectives conceptualize subjective craving and substance related attentional biases as related constructs which play a role in the
maintenance and relapse of addictive behaviors.
• (4)Section on the evidence in substance literature for the relationship between consumption level and attentional bias, paradigm by paradigm
o These paradigms are, Modified Stroop, Visual Probe, and Flicker induced Change Blindness
o So by this point, having presented the theory we move onto presenting and discussing evidence for the theory in the substance literature. We want to get
across a few things in this section:
1. at a basic level we present the different approaches, briefly indicating how bias is demonstrated
2. we want to present a picture of the evidence for bias related to consumption level and craving level
3. we want to get across that such work is done in dependency and in social levels of use, to get across idea of a potential continuum of bias
4. Ideally, we would want to be critical in our writing, considering the strengths and weaknesses of each.
• (5)Section on evidence in substance literature for relationship between craving and attentional bias
• (6)Section on emerging findings in behavioral literature regarding evidence for attentional bias
The main research question this experiment sought to address was:
• Additionally, the study also sought to address the following questions in relation to methodological aspects of measuring attentional bias:
o Is the extent of social media related attentional bias demonstrated?
o If demonstrated, is it modulated by the types of stimuli used when employing the flicker induced change blindness paradigm?