Intuitive Judgments in Depression and the Role of Processing Fluency and Positive Valence: A Preregistered Replication Study

Abstract: Background: Recent preliminary evidence indicates that depression is associated with impaired intuitive information processing. The current study aimed at replicating these findings and to move one step further by exploring whether factors known as triggering intuition (positivity, processing fluency) also affect intuition in patients with depression. Method: We pre-registered and tested five hypotheses using data from 35 patients with depression and 35 healthy controls who performed three versions of the Judgment of Semantic Coherence Task (JSCT, Bowers et al., 1990). This task operationalizes intuition as the inexplicable and sudden detection of semantic coherence. Results: Results revealed that depressed patients and healthy controls did not differ in their general intuitive performance (Hypothesis 1). We further found that fluency did not significantly affect depressed patients’ coherence judgments (H2a) and that the assumed effect of fluency on coherence judgments was not mode.... https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/2593

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Intuitive Judgments in Depression and the Role of Processing Fluency and Positive Valence: A Preregistered Replication Study ; volume:2 ; number:4 ; day:23 ; month:12 ; year:2020
Clinical psychology in Europe ; 2, Heft 4 (23.12.2020)

Creator
Remmers, Carina
Zimmermann, Johannes
Topolinski, Sascha
Richter, Christoph
Zander-Schellenberg, Thea
Weiler, Matthias
Knaevelsrud, Christine

DOI
10.32872/cpe.v2i4.2593
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004224295648227
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  • Remmers, Carina
  • Zimmermann, Johannes
  • Topolinski, Sascha
  • Richter, Christoph
  • Zander-Schellenberg, Thea
  • Weiler, Matthias
  • Knaevelsrud, Christine

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