Cognitive biases and the emotional disorders
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Attentional, memory, judgmental and associative biases are discussed within the context of their relevance for understanding emotion-cognition interactions and for understanding the etiology and maintenance of emotional disorders. Results indicate that depression is associated with a memory bias for negative mood-congruent material while anxiety is associated with an attentional bias for threatening material. Phobias, anxiety and depression are all related with mood-congruent judgmental biases. Selective associations in fear conditioning typify associative biases implicated in the origins of fears and phobias.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1992
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Prefrontal brain asymmetry: a biological substrate of the behavioral approach and inhibition systems
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Research shows that higher levels of Behavioral Inhibition System strength can be found in individuals with greater relative right prefrontal activation, while greater levels of Behavioral Approach System strength was found in those with greater relative left prefrontal activation. Negative and positive affect was not substantially correlated with prefrontal electroencephalogram. The research involved 46 self-reporting individuals.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1997
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Fear-relevant illusory correlations: what types of associations promote judgmental bias?
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The role played by stimulus-outcome associations in the occurrence of fear-relevant illusory correlations was examined in two experiments. Results revealed that stimuli and outcomes with highly similar affective characteristics promote illusory correlations than do stimuli-outcome associations which score high in belongingness ratings but whose emotional features are low in similarity.
Publication Name: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-843X
Year: 1995
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