SELF-PERPETUATING DEVELOPMENT OF ENCODING BIASES

这个研究项目致力于一个基本的认知过程，它导致了 逐渐发展出一种扭曲的现实形象。研究 由NIMH(MH-42715)目前的赠款赞助的研究表明， 加工可能在知觉偏向的发展中起着重要作用 和心理障碍。 要研究的现象与编码的操作有关 算法(即无意识的认知过程负责 将客观刺激“转化”为主观上有意义的体验 以及用于触发初始情绪响应)。之前的调查结果 研究表明，一些编码算法在不知不觉中强加于 刺激某些先前存在的解释性范畴或原型，即使 刺激“客观地”与类别不符。这种奇特的 将刺激解释为支持先前存在的认知 在某种意义上，性情可能成为主观经验的来源。 与这些性情相一致。以这种方式，编码 算法(在这种情况下是编码偏差)可能会逐渐发展成 自我延续的方式。 该研究项目是MH-42715项目的继续，它是 部分基于之前为此开发的实验程序 研究。它的设计期限为三年，将解决 关于经济增长的性质的五个一般性经验问题 自我永续现象及其在人类调节中的作用：(1) 通过自我永续获得的知识的内部组织 过程，(2)个体差异的假设性质 编码倾向及其行为的自持性发展 和人格后果，(3)自我永续的动力 编码算法的发展与自持久化的局限性 现象，(4)通常工作的假想认知机制 保护认知系统免受持续错误编码的影响 算法，以及(5)自我永续发展的作用 在抑郁症的发展和维持中的编码倾向。

This research project is devoted to a basic cognitive process that leads to the gradual development of a distorted image of reality. Research sponsored by the current grant from NIMH (MH-42715) suggests that this process may play an important role in the development of perceptual biases and psychological disorders. The phenomenon to be investigated pertains to the operation of encoding algorithms (i.e., nonconscious cognitive processes responsible for "translating" objective stimuli into subjectively meaningful experiences and for triggering initial emotional responses). Findings from previous studies indicate that some encoding algorithms nonconsciously impose on stimuli certain preexisting interpretive categories or prototypes even if the stimuli "objectively" do not match the categories. This idiosyncratic interpretation of stimuli as supportive of preexisting cognitive dispositions may, in a sense, become a source of subjective experiences that are consistent with these dispositions. In this manner, the encoding algorithms (in this case the encoding bias) may gradually develop in a self-perpetuating manner. This research project is a continuation of project MH-42715, and it is partially based on experimental procedures developed for that earlier research. It is designed for a duration of three years and will address five general empirical problems regarding the nature of the self-perpetuation phenomenon and its role in human adjustment: (1) The internal organization of knowledge acquired via the self-perpetuation processes, (2) The hypothesized nature of individual differences in the self-perpetuating development of encoding dispositions and their behavioral and personality consequences, (3) The dynamics of the self-perpetuating development of encoding algorithms and the limits of the self-perpetuation phenomenon, (4) The hypothesized cognitive mechanisms that normally work to protect the cognitive system from perpetuating erroneous encoding algorithms, and (5) The role of the self-perpetuating development of encoding dispositions in the development and sustenance of depression.