A second chance for first impressions: evidence for altered impression updating in borderline personality disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) frequently alter between idealizing and devaluing other persons, which has been linked to an increased tendency to update self-relevant beliefs and impressions. We hypothesized that increased impression updating could stem from reduced attitude contextualization, i.e., a process in which impression-disconfirming information is linked to contextual cues.

Methods

Individuals diagnosed with BPD and controls (recruited online, with unknown diagnostic status) completed an impression formation paradigm. They first learned about the positive or negative behaviors of others in one Context A (e.g., Person 1 is helpful), followed by learning about behaviors of the opposite valence in a second Context B (Person 1 is rude

SUBMITTER: Konegen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11256375 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature