Induced Biases in Emotional Interpretation Influence Stress Vulnerability and Endure Despite Changes in Context

Previous research has shown that interpretation biases can be experimentally induced and endure for 24 hours. In two experiments, we show that induced biases not only persist but survive changes in environmental context, including transferring to different rooms with different experimenters. In one...

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Published in:Behavior therapy 2006-09, Vol.37 (3), p.209-222
Main Authors: Mackintosh, Bundy, Mathews, Andrew, Yiend, Jenny, Ridgeway, Valerie, Cook, Emma
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustic Stimulation
Affect
Analysis of Variance
Anxiety - psychology
Behavior
Behaviour therapy
Bias
Comprehension
Counseling Techniques
Discrimination (Psychology)
Emotional Response
Emotions
Environment
Experimental Psychology
Experiments
Generalization (Psychology)
Humans
Language
Photic Stimulation
Psychological Studies
Reaction Time
Reference Values
Set (Psychology)
Stress
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Therapy
Time Factors
Training
Training Methods
Verbal Behavior
Vulnerability
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Summary:Previous research has shown that interpretation biases can be experimentally induced and endure for 24 hours. In two experiments, we show that induced biases not only persist but survive changes in environmental context, including transferring to different rooms with different experimenters. In one experiment, training and testing materials were also presented in different sensory modalities without significantly reducing the magnitude of the induced bias. Furthermore, we found evidence of changes in emotional vulnerability, congruent with the direction of induced bias, which also persisted for 24 hours. Together with earlier results, these findings show that induced biases generalize over contexts and have persisting emotional consequences, suggesting that appropriately adapted training methods may contribute to developing therapeutic techniques within clinical settings.
ISSN:0005-7894
1878-1888
DOI:10.1016/j.beth.2006.03.001