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The effects of life experiences and polygenic risk for depression on the development of positive and negative cognitive biases across adolescence: The CogBIAS hypothesis.
Development and psychopathology - 1 Feb 2025
Zavlis Orestis, Parsons Sam, Fox Elaine, Booth Charlotte, Songco Annabel, Vincent John Paul
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The Cognitive Bias (CogBIAS) hypothesis proposes that cognitive biases develop as a function of environmental influences (which determine the valence of biases) and the genetic susceptibility to those influences (which determines the potency of biases). The current study employed a longitudinal, polygenic-by-environment approach to examine the CogBIAS hypothesis. To this end, measures of life experiences and...
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- Humans
- Adolescent
- Female
- Male
- Child
- Multifactorial Inheritance