Assessment of Hostile Attribution Bias in Early Childhood

Developmental precursors of young school-age children's hostile attribution bias.

This prospective longitudinal study provides evidence of preschool-age precursors of hostile attribution bias in young school-age children, a topic that has received little empirical attention. We examined multiple risk domains, including laboratory and observational assessments of children's social-cognition, general cognitive functioning, effortful control, and peer aggression. Preschoolers (...

Developmental Psychology Developmental Precursors of Young School-Age Children's Hostile Attribution Bias

The Association between Hostile Attribution Bias, Social Intelligence, and Relational Aggression in Detained Boys

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Attribution Bias in schizophrenian patients who have auditory hallucination

Introduction: Concerning cognitivism, psychotic experiences (hallucination) of schizophrenic patiets have been hypothesized to originate from a fundamentally cognitive biases. Methods: To explor the idea that attribution bias may underlin appearance of auditory hallucination, in the current descriptive study, a source-monitoring task were used to compare healthy controles with relatives of indi...

Measuring Hostile Interpretation Bias

Hostile interpretation biases are central to the development and maintenance of anger, yet have been inconsistently assessed. The Word Sentence Association Paradigm (WSAP) was used to develop a new measure of hostile interpretation biases, the WSAP-Hostility. Study 1 examined the factor structure and internal consistency of the WSAP-Hostility, as well as its relationship with trait anger. Study...