Biased belief priors versus biased belief updating: Differential correlates of depression and anxiety.

ABSTRACT: Individuals prone to anxiety and depression often report beliefs and make judgements about themselves that are more negative than those reported by others. We use computational modeling of a richly naturalistic task to disentangle the role of negative priors versus negatively biased belief updating and to investigate their association with different dimensions of Internalizing psychopathology. Undergraduate participants first provided profiles for a hypothetical tech internship. They then viewed pairs of other profiles and selected the individual they would prefer to work alongside out of each pair. In a subsequent phase of the experiment, participants made judgments about their relative popularity as hypothetical internship partners both before any feedback and after each of 20 items of f

SUBMITTER: Gagne C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9377597 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature