Attentional Bias
type: Ontology
creator: Irem Atmar
comment: "Attentional bias" refers to the tendency of our perception to be affected by our recurring thoughts at the expense of other stimuli. Essentially, it's when a person's focus is more readily drawn to certain types of information or stimuli over others, depending on what is currently occupying their mind. This can manifest in various contexts, such as someone who has a fear of spiders being more likely to notice spiders or spider-like objects in their environment compared to someone without such a fear.

affects
type: ObjectProperty
inverse of: is affected by
comment: Describes the relationship between a cognitive bias and an individual on the base of influence.

hasTrigger
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Attentional Bias
range: Stimulus
comment: Signifies the stimuli, conditions, or events that initiate or activate a specific cognitive process.

influences
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Attentional Bias
range: Mental State
comment: An entity having and effect on the other entity

is affected by
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Biased Agent
range: Attentional Bias
comment: Describes a relationship between the entities on the base of influence.

is associated with
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Attentional Bias
range: Mental Disorder
comment: This property generalises relationships like whole-part, sequence, prerequisite or inspired by between instances of E29 Design or Procedure. Any instance of E29 Design or Procedure may be associated with other designs or procedures. The property is considered to be symmetrical unless otherwise indicated by P69.1 has type. The property is not transitive.

Stimulus
type: Class
comment: The Stimulus class representing any object shown to the user.

Mental State
type: Class
comment: A mental status of an agent such as cognitive process or emotional state.

Attentional Bias
type: Class
subclass of: Cognitive Bias
comment: Subclass of Bias, specifically representing attentional bias.

Biased Agent
type: Class
subclass of: People
comment: Represents an entity that experiences the bias.

Cognitive Bias
type: Class
comment: Represents the overarching concept of cognitive biases.

Mental Disorder
type: Class
comment: Disorders that affect the mental states of a person.

People
type: Class
comment: This frame contains general words for Individuals, i.e. humans. The Person is conceived of as independent of other specific individuals with whom they have relationships and independent of their participation in any particular activity. They may have an Age, Descriptor, Origin, Persistent_characteristic, or Ethnicity. A man from Phoenix was shot yesterday. She gave birth to a screaming baby yesterday. I study 16-year-old female adolescents. I am dating an African-American man. She comforted the terrified child. I always thought of him as a stupid man.

Anxiety Disorder
type: NamedIndividual
type: Mental Disorder
is associated with: Attentional Bias Instance
comment: Emma’s social anxiety disorder, which exacerbates her attentional bias towards perceived negative judgments.

Attentional Bias Instance
type: NamedIndividual
type: Attentional Bias
influences: Social Anxiety
comment: Represents Emma's tendency to focus on perceived negative social cues, such as the group whispering, at the expense of positive stimuli like welcoming smiles.

Emma
type: NamedIndividual
type: Biased Agent
is affected by: Attentional Bias Instance
comment: Represents the individual experiencing the attentional bias at the coworker birthday party. Emma feels anxious and perceives negative social cues due to her social anxiety.

Group Whispering
type: NamedIndividual
type: Stimulus
hasTrigger: Attentional Bias Instance
comment: The specific stimulus that triggers Emma's attentional bias. Emma interprets the whispering group in a birthday party as a negative social cue, reinforcing her anxiety.

Social Anxiety
type: NamedIndividual
type: Mental State
comment: The mental state that influences Emma's attentional bias. It is characterized by Emma's fear of being judged and evaluated negatively by others at social gatherings.