{"pk":27342,"title":"A Model-based Approach for Assessing Attentional Biases in People with Depressive\nSymptoms","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Biased attention is assumed to play an important role in the\netiology and maintenance of depression and depressive\nsymptoms. In this paper, we used data from a categorization\ntask and an associated model to assess the attentional bias of\npeople with varying levels of depressive symptoms.\nAttentional bias was operationalized as the parameter estimate\nin a prototype model of categorization. For estimation, we used\na Bayesian hierarchical mixture approach. We expected to find\na positive correlation between depressive symptoms and an AB\nfor negative material and a negative correlation between\ndepressive symptoms and a bias toward positive material.\nDespite good model fit, Bayesian regression analyses revealed\nweak or moderate evidence in favor of the null model assuming\nno association between attentional preferences and depressive\nsymptoms, both for negative and positive material.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"psychology; cognitive science ; attention; concepts\nand categories; Bayesian modeling; mood disorder"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0js9x745","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Isa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rutten","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Leuven","department":""},{"first_name":"Wouter","middle_name":"","last_name":"Voorspoels","name_suffix":"","institution":"KU Leuven","department":""},{"first_name":"Ernst","middle_name":"H.W.","last_name":"Koster","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ghent University","department":""},{"first_name":"Wolf","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vanpaemel","name_suffix":"","institution":"KU Leuven","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27342/galley/16978/download/"}]}