Original student research proposal produced at Southwestern College in May 2026. The study was designed but not conducted, so the paper presents hypotheses and a proposed method, not findings.
This proposal asks whether attention-bias modification could reduce hostile attention bias and aggression among justice-impacted young adults. It outlines a randomized comparison with neutral training, before-and-after measures, and recruitment safeguards for a potentially vulnerable participant population.
The evidence base is narrow, and the paper says so. Before implementation, the design would still require formal ethics review, a justified sample size, a named and validated aggression measure, and a complete analysis plan.