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Subliminal Evaluative Conditioning Changed Implicit and Explicit Depressive Cognition

Received: 6 February 2017     Accepted: 18 February 2017     Published: 10 March 2017
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The purpose of our study was to investigate whether subliminal evaluative conditioning could change implicit and explicit depression-related cognition. Subliminal evaluative conditioning was conducted as a form of Primed Lexical Decision Task, in which subliminally presented self-related word was followed supraminally presented positive words. For measuring implicit depression-related cognition, we used Depression Implicit Association Task (Depression IAT), and for explicit depression-related cognition, we used Depression subscale extracting from Depression And Anxiety Cognition Scale (DACS-D). Furthermore, we also investigated whether the changes of implicit and explicit cognition could be last for 24 hours. As a result, we found that evaluative conditioning changed the implicit depression-related cognition. However, this changing in implicit cognition did not last for 24 hours later. In explicit depression-related cognition, evaluative conditioning by PLDT changed not all subscale but negative automatic thought for self. These results suggested that evaluative conditioning made temporally changing to implicit depression-related cognition while sustained changing to explicit depressive thought for self.

Published in American Journal of Applied Psychology (Volume 6, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajap.20170602.11
Page(s) 15-21
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Keywords

IAT, Evaluative Conditioning, Depression, Implicit Depressive Cognition

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  • Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  • Tobacco Academic Study Center, Tokyo, Japan

  • School of Psychological Science, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan

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