Developing interpretation bias modification as a "cognitive vaccine" for depressed mood: imagining positive events makes you feel better than thinking about them verbally.

By Emily A. Holmes, T. Lang, Dhruvi M. Shah. 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015, background): “Relative to visual mental imagery, instructions to think verbally about hypothetical scenarios can lead to reductions in mood (Holmes et al., 2006) and susceptibility to a subsequent negative mood induction, even when the imagined scenarios are positive (Holmes et al., 2009).”
A Comparative Study on the Efficacy of a Positive Psychology Intervention and a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Clinical Depression (2017, background): “For example, training on autobiographical memory (Dalgleish and Werner-Seidler 2014) or positive imagery (Holmes et al. 2009) could also fit very well within the philosophy of positive interventions.”
Manipulating optimism: Can imagining a best possible self be used to increase positive future expectancies? (2010, background): “It has repeatedly been shown that mental imagery has stronger effects on emotions and cognition than verbal processing of the same material (Holmes, Lang, & Shah, 2009 ; Holmes, Mathews, Mackintosh, & Dalgleish, 2008 ).”
From imagery to intention: A dual route model of imagined contact effects (2010, methodology): “As well as the evidence provided by Husnu and Crisp (2010a), we have also sought to test the script availability hypothesis using a range of different experimental designs and measures.”
Cognition and Depression: Current Status and Future Directions (2010, background): “Clearly, further studies are needed that carefully and systematically investigate interpretive biases in depression.”
More than words? Hypomanic personality traits, visual imagery and verbal thought in young adults. (2012, background): “For example, Holmes et al. (2009) found that participants reported greater increases in positive affect when they imagined a series of events with positive emotional outcomes as happening to themselves and described their mental image out loud (mental imagery condition), as compared to when they…”
Cognitive bias modification approaches to anxiety. (2012, methodology): “The viability of this approach is supported by the recent success of auditory CBM-I variants in reducing anxiety symptoms (Holmes et al. 2006, 2009), and Standage et al. (2009) report that auditory and visual versions of CBM-I www.annualreviews.org • Cognitive Bias Modification Approaches to…”
Modifying Interpretation and Imagination in Clinical Depression: A Single Case Series Using Cognitive Bias Modification (2010, background): “Feedback from the other two nonresponders (Participants 5 and 7) suggested that their failure to benefit was associated with a verbal processing style, consistent with ideas that verbal (rather than imagery) processing induces unfavourable comparisons with positive material (Holmes et al., 2009a).”
Clinical Implications of Cognitive Bias Modification for Interpretative Biases in Social Anxiety: An Integrative Literature Review (2013, background): “Furthermore, Holmes and colleagues (Holmes et al. 2009) demonstrated that CBM gave greater protection against subsequent negative mood induction when imagery rather than verbal processing of the ambiguous scenarios was used.”
Sexual dimorphism in cortical theta rhythms relates to elevated internalizing symptoms during adolescence (2024, unknown): “For example, the misinterpretation of others’ intentions has been seen as a hallmark symptom of depression and anxiety (Butler & Mathews, 1983; Zobel et al., 2010), and is often a target of successful cognitive-behavioral therapies (Björgvinsson & Hart, 2006; Holmes et al., 2009).”