Social information processing biases in depressed and nondepressed college students

Author(s): DiLorenzo, T. M.

Journal/Book: J Soc Behav Pers. 1998; 13: PO Box 37, Corte Madera, CA 94976, USA. Select Press. 517-530.

Abstract: The depressive realism effect is the paradoxical fact that persons suffering from depression sometimes have more accurate perceptions than individuals not experiencing depression. Relatively few previous studies in the depressive realism literature have attempted to achieve ecological validity through use of complex social stimuli. Depressed and nondepressed college students were given two measures of social information processing accuracy. In a videotape task, participants rated how actors expressing various behaviors in a videotaped interaction felt about each other. In a live interaction task, participants rated how a confederate displaying behaviors similar to those portrayed by the videotaped actors felt about them. On both the live and video tasks, both groups were accurate in identifying schema consistent information, but inaccurate when judging schema inconsistent information. The pattern of results supports schema based biases as an explanation for depressive realism phenomena and is inconsistent with several other cognitive or motivational hypotheses.

Note: Article Johnson TJ, Indiana State Univ, Dept Psychol, Root Hall, Terre Haute,IN 47809 USA

Keyword(s): COGNITIVE THEORY; PERCEPTION; REALISM; OTHERS

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