Active Confirmation Bias in the Evaluative Processing of Food Images.

ABSTRACT: Predictive processing is fundamental to many aspects of the human mind, including perception and decision-making. It remains to be elucidated, however, in which way predictive information impacts on evaluative processing, particularly in tasks that employ bivalent stimulus sets. Various accounts, including framing, proactive interference, and cognitive control, appear to imply contradictory proposals on the relation between prediction and preference formation. To disambiguate whether predictive cues produce congruent biases versus opponent mechanisms in evaluative processing, we conducted two experiments in which participants were asked to rate individual food images. The image database included appetitive and aversive items. In each trial, a cue predicted, with varying degrees of reliabil

SUBMITTER: Ounjai K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6237889 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature