Negative affect mediates the association between negative news exposure and eye-tracking measures of attentional bias to food and alcohol cues among college students.

PLoS One · 2026 · PMC13132201 · PMID 42060584

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Furthermore, our data suggests that negative affect may partially mediate the association between negative news exposure and cumulative fixation bias, though the mediation effect did not reach statistical significance (β = 0.14; P = 0.056).

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