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Biaixos atencionals en l’esquizofrènia: una revisió bibliogràfica
2018
Antecedents: En la present revisió s’analitzen diverses investigacions on s’estudien els biaixos atencionals en el processament de la informació d’estímuls amb diferent valència emocional en persones amb esquizofrènia. Metodologia: Bases de dades PubMed i PsycINFO, articles complets en anglés, que utilitzen participants adults. L’objectiu és analitzar articles des de l’any 2000 al 2016 on s’estudien els biaixos atencionals en l’esquizofrènia. Pregunta de recerca: Existeixen biaixos atencionals en el processament de la informació davant estímuls amb diferent valència emocional ‒càrrega emocional agradable, desagradable o neutra‒ en persones amb esquizofrènia? Resultats: 22 articles, dels qua…
Attentional Biases and Vulnerability to Depression
1999
This study was designed to examine selective processing of emotional information in depression. It focuses on possible attentional biases in depression, and whether such biases constitute a cognitive vulnerability factor to suffer from the disorder or, on the contrary, they reflect a feature associated exclusively with the clinical level of depression. 81 participants were included in the study: 15 with a diagnosis of Major Depression; 17 were diagnosed as Dysthymia; 11 participants scored over 18 in the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979); 15 participants, in whom a sad mood state was induced by an experimental mood induction (Velten technique + music, or biographic…
Cognitive Biases in Pathological Health Anxiety
2016
Pathological health anxiety refers to the medically unfounded fear of suffering from a severe illness. Differences in cognitive processes related to attention, memory, and evaluation of health threat have been hypothesized to underlie pathological health anxiety. In no study, however, have researchers systematically and simultaneously assessed different cognitive biases. On the basis of the idea that multiple cognitive biases simultaneously contribute to psychopathology (the combined-cognitive-bias hypothesis), we compared 88 patients with pathological health anxiety, 52 patients with depressive disorder, and 52 healthy participants on their performance in several cognitive tasks involving…