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- Title
Biased processing of emotional information in girls at risk for depression.
- Authors
Joormann, Jutta; Talbot, Lisa; Gotlib, Ian H
- Abstract
Researchers have documented that children of depressed mothers are at elevated risk for developing a depressive disorder themselves. There is currently little understanding, however, of what factors place these children at elevated risk. In the present study, the authors investigated whether never-disordered daughters whose mothers have experienced recurrent episodes of depression during their daughters' lifetime are characterized by biased processing of emotional information. Following a negative mood induction, participants completed an emotional-faces dot-probe task. Daughters at elevated risk for depression, but not control daughters of never-disordered mothers, selectively attended to negative facial expressions. In contrast, only control daughters selectively attended to positive facial expressions. These results provide support for cognitive vulnerability models of depression.
- Publication
Journal of abnormal psychology, 2007, Vol 116, Issue 1, p135
- ISSN
0021-843X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/0021-843X.116.1.135