Audit — 2026 Cognitive-Modification Endpoint Provenance

Question

Which specific 2026 Fanti-linked cognitive-modification study supports each keynote endpoint claim, and at what evidentiary level?

Sources searched

• EFCAP 2026 detailed programme and keynote page.
• EAPL 2026 keynote abstract.
• University of Cyprus Fanti profile / selected publications.
• Author/research profiles for Mariana Aimé Castro Isdahl-Troye and Eirini Psychogioudaki.
• Exact-title web searches for all four 2026 presentations.
• Searches for theses, preprints, accepted manuscripts, repositories, trial registrations, and indexed publications associated with the titles/authors.
• SSSP 2024 poster programme for the earlier standalone ABM lineage.

Core result

The public EFCAP programme verifies the titles and authorship of the four presentations, but it does not expose their submitted abstracts, sample sizes, measures, numerical results, comparators, or effect directions. No peer-reviewed paper or publicly accessible results-bearing abstract matching these four 2026 titles was located in this audit.

Accordingly, the atlas must not infer efficacy from a presentation title. Each study remains conference-only unless a results-bearing source is later recovered.

Study-by-study decomposition

HAB-2026-A — Hostile Attribution Bias and Narcissism

Title: Hostile Attribution Bias and Narcissism: A Pre–Post Intervention Study on Aggression and Emotion Regulation in a Non-Clinical Population

Authors: Antigoni Pantazi; Mariana Aimé Castro Isdahl-Troye; Kostas Fanti.

What the title establishes:

• a pre/post intervention design;
• non-clinical population;
• hostile attribution bias and narcissism are conceptually involved;
• aggression and emotion regulation are measured or targeted endpoints.

What the public record does not establish:

• sample size;
• control/comparator condition;
• whether hostile attribution bias was actually modified;
• whether aggression decreased;
• whether emotion regulation improved;
• whether narcissism changed;
• effect size, durability, or clinical relevance.

Evidence status: conference-only; results unavailable.

Critical construct rule: Narcissism is not interchangeable with psychopathic traits. This study title therefore cannot be used as evidence for the keynote claim of reduced psychopathic traits.

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HAB-2026-B — Multimodal hostile-attribution / aggression study

Title: A multimodal approach to address hostile attribution bias and aggressive behavior

Authors: Mariana Aimé Castro Isdahl-Troye; Andreas Chatzittofis; Kostas Fanti.

What the title establishes:

• hostile attribution bias and aggressive behavior are the focal constructs;
• the study describes itself as multimodal.

What remains unknown:

• what modalities were combined;
• whether this was an intervention, mechanistic experiment, or assessment paradigm;
• sample/population;
• comparator;
• endpoints and effect direction;
• whether any reduction in aggression was demonstrated.

Evidence status: conference-only; protocol/results unresolved.

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HAB-2026-C — Hostile Attribution Bias Modification / angry rumination

Title: Hostile Attribution Bias Modification and Subsequent Changes in Angry Rumination: Findings from a Pilot Cognitive Intervention in Young Adults

Authors: Myrto Stylianou; Mariana Aimé Castro Isdahl-Troye; Kostas Fanti.

What the title establishes:

• explicit hostile-attribution-bias modification;
• pilot cognitive intervention;
• young-adult population;
• angry rumination as a subsequent measured endpoint.

What remains unknown:

• sample size;
• intervention task;
• comparator/control condition;
• direction and magnitude of angry-rumination change;
• whether hostile attribution bias itself changed;
• whether anger or aggression changed;
• follow-up durability.

Evidence status: conference-only; endpoint direction unavailable.

Critical construct rule: Angry rumination is a repetitive cognitive process concerning anger-provoking events. It is not itself equivalent to anger, aggression, or hostile attribution bias.

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ABM-2026-D — Combined Attention Bias Modification / community sample

Title: Attention Bias Patterns and the Effects of a Combined Attention Bias Modification Training in a Community Sample

Displayed programme authorship: Eirini Psychogioudaki; Eirini Psychogioudaki.

What the title establishes:

• attention-bias patterns were examined;
• an intervention described as combined ABM was used;
• community sample.

What remains unknown:

• what combined means;
• correct complete authorship;
• whether Fanti was an author;
• relationship to the 2024 Psychogioudaki–Fanti ABM eye-tracking poster;
• sample size;
• comparator;
• outcomes/effect direction;
• relationship to GENAMAT.

Evidence status: conference-only; provenance incomplete.

Relationship to 2024 ABM work

The SSSP 2024 programme independently verifies an earlier Fanti-linked poster: Attention Bias Modification Training (ABM) in non-Clinical Anxious Individuals: An Eye-Tracking Study — Eirini Psychogioudaki and Kostas Fanti.

This verifies a standalone ABM research lineage before EFCAP 2026, but the publicly located programme does not supply numerical results. It therefore establishes lineage, not efficacy.

Endpoint attribution against the 2026 keynote

Positive/emotional attention

Status: matched-proximal. Best public evidence remains the peer-reviewed GENAMAT cTBS+AMT randomized feasibility paper showing attention/gaze changes. Standalone ABM is independently confirmed as a conference research line but its results remain unavailable publicly.

Anxiety

Status: matched-partial / tension. See Audit-EAPL-05-TMS-AMT-Anxiety. Active cTBS did not show superior anxiety reduction over sham cTBS + active AMT in the best-matching RCT.

Anger

Status: conference-only; source study unresolved. The EFCAP keynote attributes anger reduction specifically to computerized attention modification. The 2026 HAB titles concern aggression, emotion regulation, angry rumination, and narcissism; none publicly establishes that attention modification reduced anger.

Antisocial behavior

Status: conference-only; source study unidentified. No publicly located peer-reviewed Fanti intervention paper in this audit substantiates the keynote's attention-modification → reduced antisocial-behavior claim.

Psychopathic traits

Status: conference-only; source study unidentified. No publicly located results-bearing attention-modification study in this audit demonstrates reduction in psychopathic traits. The presence of narcissism in HAB-2026-A is not a substitute for psychopathic-trait change.

Aggression / emotion regulation

Status: conference-targeted, effect unverified. HAB-2026-A and HAB-2026-B make these endpoints central by title, but no public results source permits coding direction or magnitude.

Angry rumination

Status: conference-targeted, effect direction unverified. HAB-2026-C explicitly assesses subsequent changes, but public evidence does not disclose whether rumination decreased, by how much, or relative to what comparator.

Interpretive consequence

The 2026 keynote compresses multiple cognitive-modification paradigms and endpoints into a concise translational narrative. The atlas should expand that compression rather than reproduce it. At present, public evidence supports a cognitive-modification research programme, but it does not permit a single pooled efficacy statement spanning attention, anger, antisocial behavior, anxiety, psychopathic traits, aggression, emotion regulation, and angry rumination.

Freeze rule

Until a results-bearing abstract, manuscript, thesis, dataset, trial record, or publication is recovered, these conference studies remain evidence that the interventions were studied — not evidence that the named endpoints improved.