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August 3, 2025Open Access

Adolescent peer victimization and subsequent cognitive-affective biases in threat attention, reactivity, and interpretation

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JHJens HeumannChangzhi UniversityMEManuel EisnerUniversity of ZurichDRDenis RibeaudUniversity of Zurich

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Overview

Counterfactual multimethod analysis highlights the link between peer victimization and cognitive-affective biases in social functioning.

Key Points

  • Victims of peer victimization show a pattern of vigilance–avoidance in threat attention, impacting their social functioning.
  • They exhibit blunted emotional responses, rating angry faces as more neutral compared to controls.
  • A longitudinal analysis indicates a faltering decline in hostile attribution and a drop in reactive aggression in victims.
  • Findings suggest that peer victimization may lead to enduring cognitive-affective biases that increase the risk of psychopathology.

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Heumann et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/689a0c7be6551bb0af8d0710https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.12.664449
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