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Patients with borderline personality disorder tend to have an ATTENTION BIAS towards emotionally negative words.

Comment: Attention bias is another way to say excessive focus upon, or to have blinders. Not only patients can suffer from attention bias, scientific researchers also can suffer from this bias. When analyzing research papers, it is important to see the big picture as well as the fine details.



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