Uncontrollability, depression, and the construction of mental models
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6200151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ulrich Von Hecker (0000-0001-8873-0515, University of Potsdam), Grzegorz Sedek (0000-0001-8932-0868) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 833-850 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.77.4.833 |
| PMID | 10531674 |
| OpenAlex | W4249523458, W2132272683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 32 |
Three studies examined mental model generation after preexposure to uncontrollability and in a depressive state. The purpose of the experiments was to test the implications of the cognitive exhaustion model, applying an explicit conceptualization of social mental models and a process-tracing method developed by U. von Hecker (1997). An experimental situation was created for observation of consecutive, rule-based construction steps as a function of input diagnosticity, and for the quality assessment of constructed mental models. The findings show that participants preexposed to uncontrollability, as well as depressed students, were able, as were controls, to identify rule-relevant information needed for model construction. However, they were less able than control participants to engage in a more cognitively demanding and generative step of processing (i.e., in integrating the pieces of input information into a coherent mental model of sentiment relations)
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Conceptualization · Depression (economics) · Developmental psychology · Generative grammar · Information processing · Mental health · Mental model · Psychotherapist · Quality (philosophy · Artificial Intelligence · Clinical Psychology · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Cognitive Science and Mapping · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Psychology · Social Psychology
Sense of Lack of Control, Cognitive Control, and the Expression of Prejudice
Metaphorical conceptualization of some notions in depressive disorders
Repetitive thought as a moderator of the impact of control deprivation on emotional and cognitive functioning
A Notional Level of Cognitive Distortions in Depression
The impact of background category information on the creation of social cliques
Prolonged unemployment is associated with control loss and personal as well as social disengagement
Experiences of Caste Stigmatization
Defocused Attention in Depressed Mood
Stereotype threat is linked to language achievement and domain identification in young males
Stereotype threat as an antecedent to domain identification and achievement in language arts in boys
Chronic stereotype threat and mathematical achievement in age cohorts of secondary school girls
Semantic Distances in Depression
What breeds conspiracy antisemitism? The role of political uncontrollability and uncertainty in the belief in Jewish conspiracy
The Meaning and Consequences of Perceived Discrimination in Disadvantaged and Privileged Social Groups
From speaking up to shutting down
Cognitive Representations (Metaphorical Conceptualizations) of Past, Future, JOY, Sadness and Happiness in Depressive and Non-depressive Subjects
Experimental Design: Procedures for the Behavioral Sciences
Learned helplessness
Dimensions of situation model construction in narrative comprehension.
Working memory constraints on the processing of syntactic ambiguity
Person memory and judgment.
Automatic and effortful processes in memory.
Structural balance
Mental models contribute to foregrounding during text comprehension
Learned helplessness in humans
The psychology of interpersonal relations.
Schematic Bases of Social Information Processing
Control Motivation and Social Cognition
Memory for expectancy-congruent and expectancy-incongruent information
Mental Models
Social cliques as mental models
Uncontrollability as irreducible uncertainty
Individual construct accessibility, person memory, and the recall-judgment link
Dysphoria and decision making
Depression and the impression-formation continuum
Effect of depression on quantity and quality of social inferences
Motivation and cognition
How Do Logical Inference Rules Help Construct Social Mental Models
Clustering and Structural Balance in Graphs
Processing time and the recall of inconsistent and consistent behaviors of individuals and groups
Processing mechanisms underlying use of the balance schema
Deprivation of control and the attribution process
When cognitive exertion does not yield cognitive gain
Reassurance seeking, stress generation, and depressive symptoms
My enemy's enemy is my friend
Effects of uncontrollability on subsequent decision making
Depressives' future-event schemas and the social inference process
Automatic and effortful processing in depression
| Citations per year | 0.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Highly cited | No |