Examining Attentional Biases to Reward-Related Cues in Hoarding Disorder and Compulsive Buying-Shopping Disorder

We used value-modulated attentional capture (VMAC) to investigate attentional biases to reward-related cues in a sample of individuals with clinical hoarding and/or compulsive shopping (n=169). Results showed that hoarding nor compulsive shopping was associated with attentional biases. However, levels of depression were associated with a blunted attentional bias to rewards.