APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Negative Affective Information Augments Trust Appraisal Bias in BPD

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session

  • 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

← Poster Session <span>VIII</span>