Depression and the Adoption of Faux Depression Symptoms: Novel Evidence for a Self-Verification Perspective
| Autor: | Kyle Richardson, William Hart, Christopher J. Breeden, Charlotte Kinrade |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Clinical Psychological Science. 9:598-614 |
| ISSN: | 2167-7034 2167-7026 |
| Popis: | Research suggests that individuals who are more depressed are prone to behaviors that reinforce their depressive symptoms. We performed a novel test of the self-verification perspective of this phenomenon. In two experiments, nonclinical participants completed a sham color-gazing task in which depressed people ostensibly see colors become less intense (less-intense condition) or more intense (more-intense condition) while gazing at them. Depression related to perceiving colors as turning less intense in the less-intense condition and more intense in the more-intense condition. These effects of depression (a) persisted after controlling for proneness for nondepressive negative affect or gender, (b) likely occurred without awareness, and (c) were not attributable to accuracy goals or opportunistic self-presentation goals. Depression also related to self-reported increased likelihood of possessing depression characteristics and rating them as more tolerable, and mediation evidence suggested that responses on the color-gazing task partly drove these reports. |
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