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Friday, February 21

19:30

Presentation by Viktoriia Denisova and Ricardo Perassa Cavassane 'Applying the Theory of Quasi-Truth for Clarification of Cognitive Distortions'

Illustration for news: Even a Nonexistent Medical Label Significantly Affects the Assessment of Human Behavior

Even a Nonexistent Medical Label Significantly Affects the Assessment of Human Behavior

Researchers from the HSE Laboratory for the Neurobiological Foundations of Cognitive Development, Alexey Kotov, Ivan Aslanov and Yulia Sudorgina, have experimentally proved that categorical labels, including nonexistent medical terms, significantly affect people's judgments, activating semantic knowledge in memory. The study has been published in the Frontiers in Psychology journal.