Cognitive and Affective Processes Online

Recruiting

• Conditions: Depression
• Interventions: Diagnostic Test: Computational dissociation of the causes of cognitive rigidity in depression

• Registration Number: NCT05736471
• Lead Sponsor: University of Minnesota

Brief Summary

This study will provide data for evaluating the psychometric characteristics of the tests assessing cognitive flexibility, including their (1) internal consistency, (2) feasibility and tolerability, their (3) convergent and discriminant validity of cognitive and affective constructs such as those introduced to understand mental disorders, and (4) sensitivity (and correspondence) to individual differences. For these tests to be useful in studying clinical conditions, they must show adequate reliability, validity, and sensitivity in large samples of convenience.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-02-07
• Study Start: 2023-02-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-02-17
• Study First Posted: 2023-02-21
• Status Verified: 2025-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-02-23
• Last Update Posted: 2025-02-25
• Primary Completion: 2025-05-07
• Study Completion: 2025-05-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2500

Inclusion Criteria

• Adults 18 years or older
• English-speaking
• Live in the U.S.
• Have access to an internet connected computer
• Users of the mTurk and Prolific survey website

Exclusion Criteria

• NA

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Test Group	Computational dissociation of the causes of cognitive rigidity in depression	involves a single testing session with surveys and tasks relevant to the experiment involving behavioral tasks and self-report questions through an online crowd-sourcing platform

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Relationship of cognitive rigidity to depressive symptoms	1 hour	Relationship of model-based measures of learning from the past and anticipating the future to symptoms of depression, specifically anhedonia
Relationship between environmental volatility and cognitive rigidity	1 hour	Relationship between environmental volatility and model-based measures of cognitive rigidity.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Minnesota; 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States