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Understanding anxiety through uncertainty quantification.

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Τίτλος: Understanding anxiety through uncertainty quantification.
Συγγραφείς: Hedley FE; Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China., Larsen E; Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA., Mohanty A; Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA., Liu JZ; Google Research, Mountain View, California, USA.; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Jin J; Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.; State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Πηγή: British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) [Br J Psychol] 2026 Aug; Vol. 117 (3), pp. 795-808. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 12.
Τύπος έκδοσης: Journal Article
Γλώσσα: English
Στοιχεία περιοδικού: Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 0373124 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2044-8295 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00071269 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Br J Psychol Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s): Publication: 2011- : West Sussex, England : Wiley-Blackwell
Original Publication: London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1953]-
Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): Anxiety*/psychology , Anxiety*/physiopathology, Humans ; Bayes Theorem ; Uncertainty
Περίληψη: Uncertainty has been a central concept in psychological theories of anxiety. However, this concept has been plagued by divergent connotations and operationalizations. The lack of consensus hinders the current search for cognitive and biological mechanisms of anxiety, jeopardizes theory creation and comparison, and restrains translation of basic research into improved diagnoses and interventions. Drawing upon uncertainty decomposition in Bayesian Decision Theory, we propose a well-defined conceptual structure of uncertainty in cognitive and clinical sciences, with a focus on anxiety. We discuss how this conceptual structure provides clarity and can be naturally applied to existing frameworks of psychopathology research. Furthermore, it allows formal quantification of various types of uncertainty that can benefit both research and clinical practice in the era of computational psychiatry.
(© 2024 The British Psychological Society.)
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