Biased probability estimates in trait anxiety and trait depression are unrelated to biased availability

心理学 特质 焦虑 特质焦虑 萧条(经济学) 集合(抽象数据类型) 临床心理学 精神科 计算机科学 宏观经济学 经济 程序设计语言
作者
Robert W. Booth,Dinkar Sharma
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期刊:Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry [Elsevier BV]
卷期号:73: 101672-101672 被引量:5
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.jbtep.2021.101672
摘要

People high in trait anxiety or depression overestimate the probability of negative events, and underestimate the probability of positive events, relative to people low in trait anxiety and depression. Although this probability bias may be fundamental to some emotional disorders, its causes are not well understood. The dominant explanations are based on the availability heuristic: people relatively high in anxiety or depression find it relatively easy to imagine reasons why bad things might happen to them, and this affects their probability estimates. We tested, for the first time, whether individual differences in the availability of such reasons mediate the relationships between trait anxiety or depression and probability bias, in a nonclinical sample.Two hundred and seventy-eight undergraduates generated reasons why a set of positive and negative events might vs. might not happen to them, before rating those events' probability and potential impact on their lives.Individual differences in the availability of reasons why good and bad events might vs. might not happen did not mediate the sizeable relationships between trait anxiety and probability bias, and between trait depression and probability bias; these relationships remained significant when availability was controlled. Results for the impact of events ('cost bias') were less clear.Replication with patient groups would be invaluable; different operationalisations of availability may change the results.Availability can influence probability estimates, but it does not explain why we see probability bias in people with high trait anxiety or depression.
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