Interpretation bias toward ambiguous information in burnout and depression

Interpretation of ambiguous information in girls at risk for depression.

Research has consistently documented that depressed individuals process information in a negatively biased manner. There is little evidence, however, concerning whether these biases represent risk factors for depression, as is hypothesized by cognitive models. In the present study we investigated whether a particular cognitive bias observed in currently depressed individuals, the tendency to in...

Interpreting Ambiguous Social Situations in Social Anxiety: Application of Computerized Task Measuring Interpretation Bias

Background and Aims: The interpretation bias which is an important factor in the pathology of social anxiety disorder, has been recently considered in therapeutic approaches. Given the importance of interpretation bias in the treatment of social anxiety, and despite the ambiguity in the relationship between social anxiety and interpretation bias, we compared the interpretation bias in individua...

Interpretation of Ambiguous Information in Causal Induction

The current study investigates how people incorporate ambiguous information into judgments of causal relations. We presented participants with information that was not easily classified into the presence or absence of a candidate cause, breaking a traditional requirement of models of causal induction. We found that people were willing to incorporate this ambiguous information into their collect...

Interpretation bias 1 Title: Interpretation of ambiguous situations: evidence for a dissociation between social and physical threat in Williams syndrome Running Head: Interpretation bias in WS

Frequency interpretation of ambiguous statistical information facilitates Bayesian reasoning.

The idea that naturally sampled frequencies facilitate performance in statistical reasoning tasks because they are a cognitively privileged representational format has been challenged by findings that similarly structured numbers presented as chances similarly facilitate performance, on the basis of the claim that these are technically single-event probabilities. A crucial opinion, however, is ...