E-ISSN : 2733-4538
Following manipulation of attention, each subject was presented with 60 adjectives, 20 under each of the three types of orienting task-structural, semantic, and self-referent. The results indicated that the self-focused attention group compared to the external focused attention group, recalled more positive than negative information processed under the self-referent task, and the depressed group recalled more negative than positive information. Such negative cognitive bias of the depressed group was more evident under the self-focused condition than under the external focused condition.