This could be through verbal information (Field, Lawson and Banerjee, 2008) transmitted mainly via acoustic events, hence the superiority of the spoken presentation modality in inducing a negative interpretation bias.
Altogether, these findings suggest that disgust does not play a role in eating pathology by inducing a negative interpretation bias in the specific domain of body and weight concerns.
This word resolved the ambiguity of the scenario, leading to a positive interpretation for most trials in the positive condition, and a negative interpretation for most trials in the negative condition.
Research has suggested that individuals high in IU may interpret ambiguous information in a more threatening manner, suggesting a negative interpretation bias for uncertain information.
Behavioral evidence for an interpretive bias in spider phobia was observed, extending findings on the existence of a negative interpretation bias in social phobia.
These include a negative interpretation bias – the tendency to interpret ambiguous information in a negative way (Butler & Mathews, 1983; Rude, Wenzlaff, Gibbs, Vane, & Whitney, 2002).
However, no evidence was obtained for a negative interpretation bias in the body-related domain for these negative mood groups, and this conclusion was also true for participants scoring high on a scale of eating disorder symptoms.
However, recent research by Tottenham et al. [ 57] revealed that children and adolescents typically show a negative bias when viewing surprised faces compared to adults, and that confusion between angry, fearful, and surprised faces in youth is likely due to a negative interpretation of surprised faces rather than perceptual similarity.
Some four centuries later, Plato introduces a negative interpretation of the word in The Symposium, where he makes a distinction between heavenly love, exercised in the dialogue with smart and beautiful young men, and pandemic love, which results from hazardous encounters with men, women or even animals.
