Accidental and Ambiguous Situations Reveal Specific Social Information Processing Biases and Deficits in Adolescents with Low Intellectual Level and Clinical Levels of Externalizing Behavior

• Published in: Journal of abnormal child psychology Vol. 48; no. 11; pp. 1411 - 1424
• Main Authors: Van Rest, M. M., Van Nieuwenhuijzen, M., Kupersmidt, J. B., Vriens, A., Schuengel, C., Matthys, W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.11.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescents; Aggressiveness; Ambiguity; Ambiguity (Context); Behavior problems; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Bias; Caretakers; Child and School Psychology; Externalizing behaviour; Information processing; Intellectual disabilities; Intelligence Quotient; Intelligence tests; Mild Intellectual Disability; Neurosciences; Perpetrators; Psychology; Public Health; Social information processing; Social problems; Teachers; Teenagers; Mild intellectual disability; Social situations; Aggression; Adolescent; Intellectual level; Externalizing behavior problems; Social information processing

Addressing aggression in youth requires understanding of the range of social problem situations that may lead to biased social information processing (SIP). The present study investigated situation-specificity of SIP and analyzed whether SIP deficits and biases are found in ambiguous as well as clea...