APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Negative Affective Information Augments Trust Appraisal Bias in BPD
- Sara Masland
Pomona College - Jill Hooley
Harvard University
Abstract
Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have a bias to rate others as untrustworthy. We examined the influence of emotional information on this bias using an affective priming paradigm. Negative primes exerted exaggerated influence on ratings for the BPD group, highlighting one way emotional processes influence social cognition in BPD.
Social Cognition