cognitive distortions

Question 1

what’re cognitive distortions

Answer 1

faulty, biased and irrational ways of thinking that mean we perceive things in a way that doesn’t match reality and is usually negative

Question 2

what is hostile attribution bias

Answer 2

those who are more likely to be violent are also more likely to misinterpret the actions of others by assuming they are being confrontational when they arent’t, misreading social cues

Question 3

explain the hostile attribution bias study conducted by Schonenberg & Justye

Answer 3

presented 55 violent offenders with images of emotionally ambiguous facial expressions.
compared with a control group, offenders were significantly more likely to perceive the images as angry and hostile

Question 4

what is an AO3 support of HA bias

Answer 4

children identified as ‘aggressive’ and ‘rejected’ were more likely to see a videoclip of neutral/ambiguous behaviour as being ‘hostile’ compared to a control group.
suggests the roots of this behaviour lie in childhood