A researcher who, with Andrew Mathews, experimentally changed interpretation bias. Repeated ambiguous material was resolved in threatening or benign ways, with later interpretations and anxiety measured separately. Active processing mattered for changes in anxiety, showing why shifting a task score is not equivalent to establishing a clinical benefit.[ref]
Induced emotional interpretation bias and anxiety by Andrew Mathews and Bundy Mackintosh. 2000, five experiments and active-meaning-generation comparison
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