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ArticleBehavior research methods2024

The Ambiguous Cue Task: Measurement reliability of an experimental paradigm for the assessment of interpretation bias and associations with mental health.

Diana J N Armbruster-Genç, Rebecca A Rammensee, Stefanie M Jungmann, Philine Drake, Michèle Wessa, Ulrike Basten

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Diana J N Armbruster-GençDepartment of Psychology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Fortstraße 7, 76829, Landau, Germany. d.armbrustergenc@rptu.de.
Rebecca A RammenseeDepartment of Psychology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Fortstraße 7, 76829, Landau, Germany.
Stefanie M JungmannDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Experimental Psychopathology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Philine DrakeDIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Michèle WessaDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Institute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Ulrike BastenDepartment of Psychology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Fortstraße 7, 76829, Landau, Germany.

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Abstract

Interpretation biases in the processing of ambiguous affective information are assumed to play an important role in the onset and maintenance of emotional disorders. Reports of low reliability for experimental measures of cognitive biases have called into question previous findings on the association of these measures with markers of mental health and demonstrated the need to systematically evaluate measurement reliability for measures of cognitive biases. We evaluated reliability and correlations with self-report measures of mental health for interpretation bias scores derived from the Ambiguous Cue Task (ACT), an experimental paradigm for the assessment of approach-avoidance behavior towards ambiguous affective stimuli. For a non-clinical sample, the measurement of an interpretation bias with the ACT showed high internal consistency (r

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CuesAdolescentAdultAffectBiasFemaleHumansMaleMental HealthMiddle AgedReproducibility of ResultsSelf ReportYoung AdultCognitive biasPsychological well-beingTranslational task

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