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Interpretive Bias

Clinical and Motivational Phenomena

Interpretive bias, or interpretation bias, is an information-processing bias defined as the tendency to inappropriately analyze ambiguous stimuli, scenarios or events. One recognized type is hostile attribution bias, in which a person perceives a benign or ambiguous behavior as hostile, as when one friend walks past another without acknowledging them and the second friend interprets the behavior to mean their friend is angry with them.

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Core Claim
An information-processing bias: the tendency to inappropriately analyze ambiguous stimuli, scenarios and events. 1
Classification
Type of Phenomenon
Cognitive Phenomenon 1
Sources
1. Interpretive bias (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    Interpretive bias or interpretation bias is an information-processing bias, the tendency to inappropriately analyze ambiguous stimuli, scenarios and events.
  • lead section, phenomenon-kind classification
    Interpretive bias or interpretation bias is an information-processing bias, the tendency to inappropriately analyze ambiguous stimuli, scenarios and events.
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