Selective affective biasing in recognition memory in the irritable bowel syndrome
| Autor: | Mjg Farthing, P. A. Dewsnap, J. E. Gomborone, G. W. Libby |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Letter media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Colonic Diseases Functional Verbal learning Memory Emotionality medicine Humans Psychological testing Psychiatry Irritable bowel syndrome media_common Recognition memory Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Psychological Tests Depression business.industry Gastroenterology Cognition Middle Aged medicine.disease Cognitive bias Confirmation bias Female business Clinical psychology Research Article |
| Popis: | The cognitive model of depression assigns a central role to negatively biased information processing in the pathogenesis of the emotional disorder. The relationship between depression and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) was explored from a cognitive perspective. A word recognition memory task was constructed: subjects had to memorize and subsequently recognise a set of emotionally loaded stimulus words with either positive, neutral, or negative connotations. Four age matched groups participated--30 IBS patients, 28 depressed patients, 28 patients with organic gastrointestinal disease, and 30 healthy volunteers. The depressed patients, as would be expected, showed a significant bias in favour of emotionally negative words (p < 0.05): the IBS patients showed the same negative bias. In addition the IBS patients made significantly more false-positive type errors in recognising emotionally negative words than either the depressed patients (p < 0.05) or the healthy volunteers (p < 0.01). This suggests that the IBS patients have a peculiar confirmatory bias for negative material. This may have clinical relevance in terms of the IBS patients' evaluation of their own abdominal sensory experience. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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