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Participants provided information on their self-perceptions, then engaged in round-robin social interactions and reported perceptions of their interaction partners and metaperceptions of what their interaction partners thought about them. Data were analyzed to determine the extent to which depressive symptomatology was associated with variations in directional bias and in sensitivity to truth and bias forces when constructing metaperceptions. Following this, metaperception directional bias and truth and bias sensitivity were examined for potential associations with social outcomes (e.g., social connectedness, loneliness, and reassurance-seeking). Lastly, preliminary mediation analyses were conducted testing if the association between depression and social outcomes was mediated by metaperception bias and if the association between metaperception biases and social outcomes was mediated by social self-efficacy. Depression was found to influence reliance on bias heuristics for several types of metaperceptions. Two clusters of metaperception bias tendencies were associated with differences in social outcomes, and there was evidence of mediated associations of both depression and social self-efficacy with social outcomes. Implications and limitations of these findings, as well as directions for future research, are discussed."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Depressive Metaperception Bias and its Relation to Social Outcomes"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Roberts, John","Psychology"],"dc:creator":["Moritz, Daniel"],"dc:date":["2019-10-29T16:47:29Z","2019","2019-07-09 09:48:58"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","Metaperception involves making judgments about what others think of us and is an important skill for navigating the social world. 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