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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Implicit cognitive processing is theorized to be central to psychopathology.
  • Implicit associations are evaluative memory representations that influence affect, cognition, and behavior without conscious control.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review definitional and measurement challenges of implicit associations.
  • To examine empirical evidence for implicit associations in various disorders.
  • To analyze how psychopathology models represent biased implicit processing.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of implicit associations in anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, posttraumatic stress, depressive, and alcohol use disorders.
  • Analysis of prominent psychopathology models regarding implicit processing.
  • Discussion of dual-process and dynamical systems perspectives.

Main Results:

  • Implicit associations are implicated across a range of psychopathologies.
  • Existing models vary in their representation of implicit processing biases.
  • Dual-process and dynamical systems models offer different frameworks for understanding these processes.

Conclusions:

  • Further research is needed to elucidate the interactive and temporal dynamics of implicit cognition in psychopathology.
  • Implicit associations represent a significant area for understanding and potentially treating mental health disorders.