Depression and anxiety: Cognitive and emotional aspects
Fall & Spring, 2006
Tuesday 2:30-4:00
Dr. Nilly Mor
School of Education, rm 477
Tel: 02-588-2055
e-mail: nmor@huji.ac.il
Course description: The course examines how theory and empirical work on cognitive
and emotional processes enhance our understanding of mood and anxiety disorders.
Evaluation will be based on class participation (10%), reaction reports to the reading
(30%) and research project (60%).
Class schedule
Date
24/10
31/10
7/11
Topic
Introduction
Attention biases in anxiety - vigilance and
avoidance
Evolutionary approaches - The fear module
14/11
Attention biases in anxiety – disengagement
No class*
28/11
Attention biases in depression – inhibition
5/12
Autobiographical memory and depression
12/12
19/12
Student projects – initial formulation
Rumination
26/12
2/1
Student projects – initial formulation
Thought suppression
9/1
16/1
Student projects – initial formulation
Emotion reactivity and regulation in
depression
Student projects – initial formulation
23/1
Semester
Break
27/2
6/3
13/3
20/3
27/3
Break
Break
17/4
Student projects – design and
methodology
Interpretation bias in anxiety
The causal status of interpretation biases
Attribution and depressogenic cognitive
style
Student projects – problem solving
Stress and intergenerational transmission in
depression
Mathews & MacLeod (2005)
Wilson & MacLeod (2003)
Mogg & Bradley (2004)
Ohman, Flykt, & Esteves (2001)
Ohman & Mineka (2003)
Fox, Russo, Bowles & Dutton (2001)
Gotlib, Yue, & Joormann (2005)
Williams & Broadbent (1986)
Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2000)
Watkins & Moulds (2005)
Wenzlaff, Rude, Taylor, Stultz, &
Sweatt, (2001)
Rottenberg, Kasch, Gross, & Gotlib
(2002)
Blanchette & Richards (2003)
Mathews & Mackintosh (2000)
Alloy, Abramson, Whitehouse,
Hogan, Panzarella, & Rose (2006)
Hammen, Shih, & Brennan (2004)
1/5
Implicit self esteem in depression
8/5
An integrative models: Clark & Wells
model of social anxiety
TBA
TBA
Student projects – making sense of data
analyses
Student projects – making sense of data
analyses
Summary and conclusions
15/5
29/5
5/6
12/6
19/6
De Raedt, Schachtb, Francka & De
Houwer (2006)
Clark & McManus (2002)
Mansell, Clark & Ahlers (2003)
Alloy, L. B., Abramson, L. Y., Whitehouse, W. G., Hogan, M. E, Panzarella, C., &
Rose, D. T. (2006). Prospective incidence of first onsets and recurrences of
depression in individuals at high and low cognitive risk for depression Journal of
Abnormal Psychology, 115, 145 – 156.
Mathews, A., & MacLeod, C. (2005). Cognitive vulnerability to emotional disorders.
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 1, 1-29.
Wilson, E., MacLeod, C. (2003). Contrasting two accounts of anxiety-linked
attentional bias: Selective attention to varying levels of stimulus threat intensity.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 212 – 218.
Mogg, K., & Bradley, B. (2004). A cognitive-motivational perspective on the
processing of threat information and anxiety. In J. Yiend (Ed.) , Cognition,
Emotion, and Psychopathology: Theoretical, Empirical and Clinical Directions.
Cambridge: UK.
Fox, E., Russo, R., Bowles, R., & Dutton, K. (2001). Do threatening stimuli draw or
hold visual attention in subclinical anxiety? Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General, 130, 681-700.
Ohman, A., Flykt, A., & Esteves, F. (2001). Emotion drives attention: Detecting the
snake in the grass. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 466-478
Ohman, A., Mineka, S. (2003). The malicious serpent: Snakes as a prototypical
stimulus for an evolved module of fear. Current Directions in Psychological
Science, 12, 5-9.
Blanchette, I., & Richards, A. (2003). Anxiety and the interpretation of ambiguous
information: Beyond the emotion-congruent effect. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General, 132, 294-309.
Lawson, C., MacLeod, C., & Hammond, G. (2002). Interpretation revealed in the
blink of an eye: Depressive bias in the resolution of ambiguity. Journal of
Abnormal Psychology, 111, 321 – 328.
Mathews, A., & Mackintosh, B. (2000). Induced emotional interpretation bias and
anxiety. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109, 602–615.
Williams, J. M. G., & Broadbent, K. (1986). Autobiographical memory in suicide
attempters. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 95, 144 – 149.
Raes, F., Hermans, D., de Decker, A., Eelen, P., & Williams, J. M. G. (2003).
Autobiographical memory specificity and affect-regulation: An experimental
approach. Emotion, 3, 201-206.
Barnhofer, T., Jong-Meyer, R., Kleinpath, A., & Nikesch, S. (2002). Specificity of
autobiographical memories in depression: An analysis of retrieval processes in a
think-aloud task. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 41, 411-416.
Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2000). The role of rumination in depressive disorders and
mixed anxiety/depressive symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109, 504511.
Watkins, E., & Moulds, M. (2005). Distinct modes of ruminative self-focus: impact of
abstract versus concrete rumination on problem solving in depression. Emotion, 5,
319 – 328.
Hankin, B. L., Fraley, R. C., & Abela, J. R. Z. (2005). Daily depression and
cognitions about stress: Evidence for a traitlike depressogenic cognitive style and
the prediction of depressive symptoms in a prospective daily diary study. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 673-685.
Williams, J. M. G., Barnhofer, T., Crane, C., & Beck, A. T. (2005). Problem solving
deteriorates following mood challenge in formerly depressed patients with a
history of suicidal ideation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114, 421-431.
Clark, D. M., & McManus, F. (2002). Information processing in social phobia.
Biological Psychiatry, 51, 92 -100.
Mansell, W., Clark, D. M., & Ahlers, A. (2003). Internal versus external attention in
social anxiety: an investigation using a novel paradigm. Behaviour Research and
Therapy, 41, 555 – 572.
Rottenberg, J., Kasch, K. L., Gross, J. J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2002). Sadness and
amusement reactivity differentially predict concurrent and prospective functioning
in major depressive disorder. Emotion, 2, 135-146.
Wenzlaff, R. M., Rude, S. S., Taylor, C. J., Stultz, C. H., & Sweatt, R. A. (2001).
Beneath the veil of thought suppression: Attentional bias and depression risk.
Cognition and Emotion, 16, 533-548.
Gotlib,I. H., Yue, D. N., & Joormann, J. (2005). Selective attention in dysphoric
individuals: the role of affective interference and inhibition. Cognitive Therapy
and Research, 29, 417 – 432.
Hammen, C., Shih, J. H., & Brennan, P. A. (2004). Intergenerational transmission of
depression: test of an interpersonal stress model in a community sample. Journal
of Abnormal Psychology, 72, 511 -522.
De Raedt, R., Schachtb, R., Francka .E., & De Houwer, J. (2006). Self-esteem and
depression revisited: Implicit positive self-esteem in depressed patients?
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 1017-1028.