Change blindness, reward bias, negative affective priming: Exploring individual-level associations between depression/anxiety symptoms and cognition. Balogh, A., Lewis, G., Shafran, R., & Robinson, O. J. Mental Health Science, 2(3):e70, 2024. _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/mhs2.70![Change blindness, reward bias, negative affective priming: Exploring individual-level associations between depression/anxiety symptoms and cognition [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Cognitive biases are thought to contribute to depression/anxiety. In addition to self-reported measures, cognitive tasks could potentially be integrated with clinical practice as more precise measures of cognitive biases. In a large online study we explored the individual-level association between depression/anxiety symptoms and performance on (1) reward bias, (2) negative affective priming, and (3) change blindness tasks. Participants completed tasks alongside depression/anxiety symptom questionnaires. We used regression analyses to test for associations between task performance and questionnaire scores. We conducted a replication study of the change blindness task, and performed a mega-analysis of the two studies. Faster reaction time in the change blindness task was associated with higher depression score (B = −27, p = 0.034) in the first study (N = 545) and higher depression and anxiety scores (depression: B = −15, p = 0.045; anxiety: B = −17, p = 0.022) in the replication study (N = 616). These effects were significant in the mega-analysis but did not withstand adjusting for age in either the original and replication studies or the mega-analysis. We found no association between depression/anxiety and reward bias (N = 504) and negative affective priming (N = 539). Our results provide preliminary evidence that individuals with more severe depressive/anxious symptoms may be faster at identifying changes in the change blindness task. Contrary to previous findings, neither reward bias nor negative affective priming was associated with depression/anxiety.
@article{balogh_change_2024,
title = {Change blindness, reward bias, negative affective priming: {Exploring} individual-level associations between depression/anxiety symptoms and cognition},
volume = {2},
copyright = {© 2024 The Authors. Mental Health Science published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.},
issn = {2642-3588},
shorttitle = {Change blindness, reward bias, negative affective priming},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mhs2.70},
doi = {10.1002/mhs2.70},
abstract = {Cognitive biases are thought to contribute to depression/anxiety. In addition to self-reported measures, cognitive tasks could potentially be integrated with clinical practice as more precise measures of cognitive biases. In a large online study we explored the individual-level association between depression/anxiety symptoms and performance on (1) reward bias, (2) negative affective priming, and (3) change blindness tasks. Participants completed tasks alongside depression/anxiety symptom questionnaires. We used regression analyses to test for associations between task performance and questionnaire scores. We conducted a replication study of the change blindness task, and performed a mega-analysis of the two studies. Faster reaction time in the change blindness task was associated with higher depression score (B = −27, p = 0.034) in the first study (N = 545) and higher depression and anxiety scores (depression: B = −15, p = 0.045; anxiety: B = −17, p = 0.022) in the replication study (N = 616). These effects were significant in the mega-analysis but did not withstand adjusting for age in either the original and replication studies or the mega-analysis. We found no association between depression/anxiety and reward bias (N = 504) and negative affective priming (N = 539). Our results provide preliminary evidence that individuals with more severe depressive/anxious symptoms may be faster at identifying changes in the change blindness task. Contrary to previous findings, neither reward bias nor negative affective priming was associated with depression/anxiety.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2025-07-10},
journal = {Mental Health Science},
author = {Balogh, Annamaria and Lewis, Glyn and Shafran, Roz and Robinson, Oliver J.},
year = {2024},
note = {\_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/mhs2.70},
keywords = {anxiety, change blindness, cognition, depression, negative affective priming, reward},
pages = {e70},
}
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