Hostile interpretation biases are central to the development and maintenance of anger, yet have been inconsistently assessed. The Word Sentence Association Paradigm (WSAP) was used to develop a new measure of hostile interpretation biases, the WSAP-Hostility. Study 1 examined the factor structure and internal consistency of the WSAP-Hostility, as well as its relationship with trait anger. Study...

In this paper, we show how game theoretic work on conversation combined with a theory of discourse structure provides framework for studying interpretive bias and affects the production interpretation linguistic content. We model influence author content author’s interpreter ambiguous or underspecified elements that structure. Interpretive is an essential feature learning understanding but also...

Publication bias remains a controversial issue in psychological science. The tendency of psychological science to avoid publishing null results produces a situation that limits the replicability assumption of science, as replication cannot be meaningful without the potential acknowledgment of failed replications. We argue that the field often constructs arguments to block the publication and in...

IT executives create value for their organizations in various ways. Two widely adopted paradigms for doing so are applying IT to increase process efficiencies, and informating the organization by using IT’s knowledge management (KM) capabilities. Research has demonstrated that there is value to be achieved through both these strategies: Practitioners have been advised to implement KM projects i...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Rumination, a maladaptive cognitive style of responding to negative mood, is thought to be maintained by a variety of cognitive biases. However, it is unknown whether rumination is characterized by interpretation biases. METHODS Two experiments examined the link between rumination and interpretation biases, revealed in lexical-decision tasks (LDT). A homograph with b...

all the people sometimes in their life become anxious in social situations. social phobia is exaggerated form of these fears. social phobic patients are afraid of being seen. they scared of act somehow that being contemptional or shameful.researchers have found four type of cognitive bias in anxious individuals: attention bias, memory bias, judgment (reasoning) and interpretation bias.one kind ...