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From a cognitive perspective, depression may be related to some of people's false beliefs, including our beliefs about ourselves, the environment, and future events.
A recent study published in "Clinical Psychological Science" by researchers at the University of Koblenz-Landau focused on the impact of depression on future expectations. Research shows that depression may form a kind of "cognitive immunity" to positive feedback, which makes it difficult for people to modify their negative expectations for the future even if they receive good comments and praise, and use this good Feedback is treated as an untrusted exception to .
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Researchers recruited 379 participants (200 of whom reported at least mild symptoms of depression) to complete a challenging emotional intelligence test . The test requires participants to correctly identify another person's emotional response in a specific situation. Participants reported their own expectations before testing, as well as their performance on similar tasks. After the quiz, they will randomly receive mild, moderate, or very positive feedback regardless of their actual performance. After receiving feedback, they reported how they expected to perform if they took the test again. The
results showed that regardless of whether participants had depressive symptoms or not, they updated their future expectations based on the feedback. However, participants with depressive symptoms generally maintained a low level of future expectations regardless of feedback, and considered any form of positive feedback to be untrustworthy and only exceptional.
References
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Kube, T., et al. How the Discrepancy Between Prior Expectations and New Information Influences Expectation Updating in Depression—The Greater, the Better? Clinical Psychological Science(2022). https: //doi.org/10.1177/21677026211024644
