How Beliefs Get Trapped: Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Mechanisms of Biased Belief Updating In Relation to Mental Health Problems

This symposium explores why beliefs sometimes fail to update and how this relates to mental health problems such as depression and low self-esteem. It highlights how attributional processes, affect modulation, and information-seeking behavior shape biased belief updating, providing different mechanistic perspectives on how beliefs can become immune to updating.