Scrambled, but Depressed?: A Series of Studies Showing the Utility of the Scrambled Sentence Task to Provide a Negative Interpretation Bias Measure Sensible to Clinical Risk and Status of Depression

This poster will describe a series of three studies validating the utility of the scrambled sentence task to index negative interpretation biases in formerly, subclinically and clinically depressed individuals. Our findings support the validity of the task to identify different bias levels accounting for risk and clinical status of depression.