A growing literature suggests that the characteristics of sensation seeking and reality distortion expressed in schizophrenia share several mechanisms. In a previous study, the comparison of patients with high vs. low reality distortion using event-related potentials (ERPs) recorded in a recognition memory task for unfamiliar faces identified neural and cognitive anomalies specifically related ...

Self-report personality questionnaires, traditionally offered in a graded-scale format, are widely used in high-stakes contexts such as job selection. However, job applicants may intentionally distort their answers when filling in these questionnaires, undermining the validity of the test results. Forced-choice questionnaires are allegedly more resistant to intentional distortion compared to gr...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between religious orientation (intrinsic-external) and cognitive distortions. METHODS General design of this study considered as a descriptive and correlational method. Universal population in this research consist all students of the Urmia Azad University, which were studying during 2012 and 2013 (n = 250). All responden...

PURPOSE Body image incorporates cognitive and affective components as well as behaviors related to own body perception. This study evaluated the occurrence of body image distortion and its correlates in Korean adolescents. METHODS In a school-based cross-sectional survey, a total of 2,117 adolescents were recruited. They filled out self-completing questionnaires on body image distortion, eati...

Pupil dilation is known to quickly respond to changes in the brightness in the visual field and a person's cognitive workload while performing a visual task. Pupil dilation is rarely analyzed in usability studies although it can be measured by most video-based eye-tracking systems and yields highly relevant workload information. This is mainly due to two problems: First, the variety of factors ...

We propose a framework for the streaming of light fields over a lossy error-prone packet network. This system is optimized for the end-user according to a rate-distortion criterion. We build upon recent rate-distortion optimized streaming work for audio and video data. We extend this work to light field image data by introducing view-dependent distortion, multiple playout deadlines, and stateba...

background several empirical studies have shown the attitude of smokers to formulate judgments based on distortion in the risk perception. this alteration is produced by the activation of the optimistic bias characterized by a set of the unrealistic beliefs compared to the outcomes of their behavior. this bias exposes individuals to adopt lifestyles potentially dangerous for their health, under...

Depression is a common mental disorder. Appropriate support from others can reduce the cognitive distortion that can be caused by subsequent depressions. To increase our understanding of this process, an agent model is presented in this paper in which the positive and negative effects of social support and its relation with cognitive thoughts are modelled. Simulations show the effect of social ...