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Appraisal Biases About Strangers in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Cognitive theories of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suggest that negative appraisals play an important role in the development and maintenance of PTSD. It has not yet been examined experimentally how people with PTSD appraise strangers. Twenty-two trauma survivors with PTSD and 26 non-traumat...

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Autores principales: Sachschal, Juliane, Woodward, Elizabeth, Ehlers, Anke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6514061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31148879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-018-9962-1
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description Cognitive theories of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suggest that negative appraisals play an important role in the development and maintenance of PTSD. It has not yet been examined experimentally how people with PTSD appraise strangers. Twenty-two trauma survivors with PTSD and 26 non-traumatised controls completed a person impression updating task. There was no group difference in initial kindness ratings of people shown in the photos. The PTSD group changed their ratings more when receiving negative compared to positive information about the person, relative to controls. When incongruent information was subsequently presented, the PTSD group tended to be more influenced by negative information than positive information, relative to congruent information, than controls. The findings suggest selective attention to negative information about others in PTSD. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s10608-018-9962-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-65140612019-05-28 Appraisal Biases About Strangers in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Sachschal, Juliane Woodward, Elizabeth Ehlers, Anke Cognit Ther Res Original Article Cognitive theories of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suggest that negative appraisals play an important role in the development and maintenance of PTSD. It has not yet been examined experimentally how people with PTSD appraise strangers. Twenty-two trauma survivors with PTSD and 26 non-traumatised controls completed a person impression updating task. There was no group difference in initial kindness ratings of people shown in the photos. The PTSD group changed their ratings more when receiving negative compared to positive information about the person, relative to controls. When incongruent information was subsequently presented, the PTSD group tended to be more influenced by negative information than positive information, relative to congruent information, than controls. The findings suggest selective attention to negative information about others in PTSD. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s10608-018-9962-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2018-11-30 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6514061/ /pubmed/31148879 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-018-9962-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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