Enduring consequences of experimentally induced biases in interpretation

Previous research has demonstrated that it is possible to induce biases in the interpretation of ambiguous text passages by training. Participants consistently trained to interpret emotionally ambiguous passages in either a negative or positive direction show training-congruent effects when presente...

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Published in:Behaviour research and therapy 2005-06, Vol.43 (6), p.779-797
Main Authors: Yiend, Jenny, Mackintosh, Bundy, Mathews, Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Affectivity. Emotion
Analysis of Variance
Anxiety
Anxiety - psychology
Behavior
Bias
Biological and medical sciences
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Information processing
Interpretation
Learning
Male
Middle Aged
Personality. Affectivity
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Reading comprehension
Recognition (Psychology)
Social Perception
Training
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Summary:Previous research has demonstrated that it is possible to induce biases in the interpretation of ambiguous text passages by training. Participants consistently trained to interpret emotionally ambiguous passages in either a negative or positive direction show training-congruent effects when presented with new ambiguous material. These training effects are demonstrated by participants’ subsequent recognition ratings for disambiguating sentences, which represent both possible meanings of the novel ambiguous test passages. In this series of experiments, we investigated the durability of these training effects over time spans of up to 1 day and found them to be robust. The findings encourage us to believe that induced biases may serve as a useful analogue to those observed clinically.
ISSN:0005-7967
1873-622X
DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2004.06.007