APS
2026 APS Annual Convention
How Beliefs Get Trapped: Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Mechanisms of Biased Belief Updating In Relation to Mental Health Problems
Subject Area: Mental Health in Focus: Symptoms, Support & Intervention
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.
Chairs & Discussants
- Tobias KubeChair
Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany
Presentations
- Self-Esteem Modulates Beneficial Causal Attributions In the Formation of Novel Self-BeliefsDavid Stolz
- How Responses to Positive Emotion Shape Interpretation FlexibilityJonas Everaert
- How Information-Seeking Behavior Shapes Positive Belief Updating In Relation to Depressive SymptomsTobias Kube
