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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Cognitive Biases"”.
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Cognitive Biases in Alcohol and Marijuana Users
… indicating the presence, at least in part, of a cognitive bias in those who use alcohol.
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Visual attention and cognitive biases to threat in anxiety
… of life. A large body of research has adopted a cognitive approach to explore factors that are involved in the development and maintenance of elevated anxiety. Cognitive theories of anxiety emphasise the importance of attentional processes and propose that anxiety is characterised by selective …
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Cognitive Biases and Autonomic Responding in Anxiety and Depression
The present study addressed cognitive biases in anxiety and depression using the emotional Stroop task, and explored both the affective space and autonomic underpinnings of these disorders. In previous studies, anxiety has been associated with both an attentional bias toward threat information and …
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Autistic Traits and Cognitive Biases for Emotional Faces in Neurotypicals
Cognitive biases can involve the tendency to extract some sensory inputs while ignoring others. Cognitive biases impact perception, and subsequent processing decisions made on the basis of perception. Cognitive biases can disrupt accurate and efficient processing of social information, and may …
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The influence of cognitive biases on psychophysiological vulnerability to stress
… with balanced or positively-skewed inclinations. Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) techniques improve maladaptive biases through implicitly-based association learning, with induced positive biases buffering the future perception of stress. Six experimental studies investigated the next stage of …
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Barriers and Cognitive Biases in the Monitoring-Based Commissioning Process
… to MBCx and barriers caused specifically by cognitive bias in the decision-making process. Using qualitative data from over 40 organizations implementing and practicing MBCx, this manuscript provides a better understanding of these barriers. Chapter 1 synthesizes and codes the qualitative …
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A game-based intervention for the reduction of statistical cognitive biases
… situations. Psychologists have coined the term cognitive bias for instances in which the intuition of the average person disagrees with the formal mathematical analysis of the problem. This thesis examines if a one-hour game-based intervention can enact a change in the intuitive mental models …
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Investigating the Role of Cognitive Biases as a Risk Factor for Depression
<p>Consistent with the combined cognitive bias hypothesis (Hirsch, Clark, & Mathews, 2006), cognitive biases in attention, memory, and interpretation have been posited as an underlying vulnerability to the maintenance and recurrence of depressive episodes. While research supports the presence of …
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Project management and the film industry value chain: the impact of cognitive biases on value creation and learning
… question: In what ways does the presence of cognitive biases impact negatively on project management decision-making in the film industry? Are there ways that biases can best be avoided or at least reduced? This thesis cites evidence that managers are consistently unable to devise ways of …
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Cognitive Biases in Childhood Anxiety Disorders: Do Interpretive and Judgment Biases Distinguish Anxious Youth from their Non-anxious Peers?
The purpose of this study was to examine cognitive biases in clinically anxious children compared to normal children and to determine if cognitive biases could discriminate anxious youth from non-anxious youth. Two specific cognitive biases were the focus of the present study—interpretive biases …
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The Power of Perception in Human-AI Interaction: Investigating Psychological Factors and Cognitive Biases that Shape User Belief and Behavior
… 238 participants, the first study explores how cognitive style, paranormal beliefs, AI attitudes, and personality traits impact perceptions of the validity, reliability, usefulness, and personalization of predictions from different sources. The study finds a positive correlation between belief …
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SHARED AND UNIQUE PATTERNS OF RESTING-STATE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY LINKED TO ATTENTIONAL AND INTERPRETATION BIASES
<p>A growing number of studies have shown that cognitive biases are associated with the development and maintenance of depression and anxiety. Relative to healthy controls, individuals who are vulnerable for affective disorders prioritize their attentional focus on more negative stimuli and …
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Understanding the role of emotion, reward and food preference on the perception of sweet-tasting food using a novel classification task
… that humans tend to have behavioural biases toward calorie (kcal)-dense foods, particularly those that are sweet, although cognitive biases toward these foods are less well established. With major public health organisations highlighting the rising concerns surrounding excessive sugar …
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Selective Attention and Childhood Anxiety: The Associations Among Attention, Memory, Interpretive Biases and Anxiety
… of 81 children (38 females) aged 9-17 years. Cognitive biases were assessed using a word and picture Dot Probe Discrimination task to assess selective attention, a memory task to assess a memory bias, and the CNCEQ to assess interpretive bias. Childhood anxiety was assessed using the parent …
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Biases in Children's Cognitive Styles: Investigating Local, Global, and Rule-Based Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Typical Development
… many attempts have been made to explain the cognitive profiles of children and adults with ASD. Three prominent theories, Weak Central Coherence (Frith, 1989), Systemizing (Baron-Cohen, 2002), and Executive Dysfunction Theory (Pennington & Ozonoff, 1996), may together provide a plausible …
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The effect of cognitive bias video instruction on high school biology student acceptance of evolution: Implications for teachers and educational leaders
<p>Cognitive biases have long been studied for their effects on an individual's decision-making. This study is the first of its kind to link these preferential thinking patterns to high school biology students' acceptance of evolution. At five urban high schools, 164 high school biology students …
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Models for Satisficing Mentalizing
… other studies have found that people exhibit cognitive biases, such as an egocentric bias in ToM tasks, especially in situations that require more intuitive or unsolicited ToM from participants. So far it is not entirely clear what causes this divergence between people’s general ToM …
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The relationship between worries and safety-seeking behaviour in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
… dysfunctional core beliefs, cognitive biases, life rules, and safety-seeking behaviours, and 35 subthemes. Results indicate that cognitive biases and core beliefs developed through early childhood experiences determine ones´ perception of the environment. Intolerance of …
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