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EXperimental Paradigm to Investigate Expectation Change in Depression 4

NCT03780881 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 171

Last updated 2023-12-05

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Summary

Research has shown that people with depressive symptoms maintain negative expectations even if they have positive experiences that contradict their expectations. Healthy people, however, change their expectations after unexpected positive experiences. In this experimental study, it will now be examined whether there are also differences between healthy people and people with depressive symptoms in dealing with unexpected negative experiences.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Expectation confirmation

Participants receive manipulated feedback indicating that their performance was above average in the test they had previously worked on. This feedback is intended to confirm the previously induced positive expectations of their own performance.

BEHAVIORAL

Expectation disconfirmation

Participants receive manipulated feedback indicating that their performance was below average in the test they had previously worked on. This feedback is intended to negatively disconfirm the previously induced positive expectations of their own performance.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Philipps University Marburg

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tobias Kube, PhD · Philipps University Marburg

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-11-11
Primary Completion
2019-03-30
Completion
2019-08-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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Diseases

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