Dr. Lukas Kirchner

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Dr. Lukas Kirchner

Postdoctoral Researcher

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

University of Marburg

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How the positivity of new information influences belief updating in depression - The more, the better?

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T. Kube, L. Kirchner, G. Lemmer, J. Glombiewski
2021
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Kube, T., Kirchner, L., Lemmer, G., & Glombiewski, J. (2021). How the positivity of new information influences belief updating in depression - The more, the better?

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Kube, T., L. Kirchner, G. Lemmer, and J. Glombiewski. “How the Positivity of New Information Influences Belief Updating in Depression - The More, the Better?” (2021).

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Kube, T., et al. How the Positivity of New Information Influences Belief Updating in Depression - The More, the Better? 2021.

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@article{t2021a,
  title = {How the positivity of new information influences belief updating in depression - The more, the better?},
  year = {2021},
  author = {Kube, T. and Kirchner, L. and Lemmer, G. and Glombiewski, J.}
}

Abstract

Aberrant belief updating has been linked to psychopathology, e.g., depressive symptoms. While previous research used to treat belief-confirming vs. -disconfirming information as binary concepts, the present research varied the extent to which new information deviates from prior beliefs and examined its influence on belief updating. In a false feedback task (Study 1; N = 379) and a social interaction task (Study 2; N = 292), participants received slightly positive, moderately positive or extremely positive information in relation to their prior beliefs. In both studies, new information was deemed most reliable if it was moderately positive. Yet, differences in the positivity of new information had only small effects on belief updating. In Study 1, depressive symptoms were related to difficulties in generalizing positive new learning experiences. The findings suggest that, contrary to traditional learning models, the larger the differences between prior beliefs and new information, the more beliefs are not updated.

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