Social information Processing Model

Question 1

SIP model

Answer 1

Tries to interpret findings of various studies, providing framework to understand the cognitive bias in loneliness

Question 2

Encoding of cues

Answer 2

Lonely’s have implicit hypervigilance towards social threats: initial broad attention, used to constantly scan environment, later narrowing, attention toward threatening stimuli

Question 3

Attention

Answer 3

Examined using eye tracking, focus on gaze longer than 100ms.

Lonely’s fixate earlier on social threat and later avoid these. However, children have the opposite, trouble disengaging from it.

This is only in clips not photo’s, BUT with EEG the response is faster for lonely’s

Question 4

Emotion recognition

Answer 4

Threatening stimuli are expected to be recognized w increased accuracy and sensitivity by lonely’s. Is only the case for neg emotions, but studies used combined scores.

Question 5

Attributions

Answer 5

Intent:
- Lonely increased hostile intentions
- Hostile attributions are specific to ambiguous events

Causality;
- Studies differentiate between attributing stability, locus of control and controllability
- Increased attr to uncontrollable

positive social events was related to more unstable, external and uncontrollable