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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 22, No. 2, 192-200 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167296222008
© 1996 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Depression and the Correspondent Inference Bias: Evidence for more Effortful Cognitive Processing

John H. Yost

Ohio State University

Gifford Weary

Ohio State University

This research tested the hypothesis that because of mildly and moderately depressed and dysphoric individuals' need to reestablish feelings of control, such individuals will be more likely to effort fully process available social information. Using a cognitive load manipulation up within the correspondence bias paradigm, it was found that depressed subjects were less likely than nondepressed subjects to make correspondent inferences (and more likely to process the available social information), but only under the condition of no cognitive load. The results of the study provide evidence for the motivated effortful processing of social information by moderately depressed individuals.


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