Cognition and Emotion Laboratory
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This lab is dedicated to research into the relationship between Cognition and Emotion.
Clinical theorists have attributed emotional disorders to cognitive idiosyncrasies, while cognitive theorists have developed models which suggest that emotional states will be associated with pervasive information processing biases throughout the cognitive system. Both clinical and cognitive models of emotional disorders predict the existence of processing biases favouring emotionally congruent information in attention, comprehension, and memory.
Current research uses cognitive-experimental paradigms to test hypotheses arising from these models, and focuses on several related questions including: To what extent are such biases automatic? What is the relative involvement of state and trait variables? Do information processing biases mediate emotional reaction to valenced stimuli? Is susceptibility to mood congruent information processing biases a vulnerability factor for emotional disorders?
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