Publication year
2014Author(s)
Number of pages
11 p.
Source
Cognition & Emotion, 28, 1, (2014), pp. 182-192ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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SW OZ BSI KLP
Journal title
Cognition & Emotion
Volume
vol. 28
Issue
iss. 1
Languages used
English (eng)
Page start
p. 182
Page end
p. 192
Subject
Experimental Psychopathology and TreatmentAbstract
This study investigated multiple cognitive biases in children simultaneously, to investigate whether spider-fearful children display an interpretation bias, a recall bias, and source monitoring errors, and whether these biases are specific for spider-related materials. Furthermore, the independent ability of these biases to predict spider fear was investigated. A total of 121 children filled out the Spider Anxiety and Disgust Screening for Children (SADS-C), and they performed an interpretation task, a memory task, and a Behavioural Assessment Test (BAT). As expected, a specific interpretation bias was found: Spider-fearful children showed more negative interpretations of ambiguous spider-related scenarios, but not of other scenarios. We also found specific source monitoring errors: Spider-fearful children made more fear-related source monitoring errors for the spider-related scenarios, but not for the other scenarios. Only limited support was found for a recall bias. Finally, interpretation bias, recall bias, and source monitoring errors predicted unique variance components of spider fear.
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