Exploratory Study into Relations between Cognitive Distortions and Emotional Appraisals

Navneet Agarwal, Kairit Sirts


Abstract
In recent years, there has been growing interest in studying cognitive distortions and emotional appraisals from both computational and psychological perspectives. Despite considerable similarities between emotional reappraisal and cognitive reframing as emotion regulation techniques, these concepts have largely been examined in isolation. This research explores the relationship between cognitive distortions and emotional appraisal dimensions, examining their potential connections and relevance for future interdisciplinary studies. Under this pretext, we conduct an exploratory computational study, aimed at investigating the relationship between cognitive distortion and emotional appraisals. We show that the patterns of statistically significant relationships between cognitive distortions and appraisal dimensions vary across different distortion categories, giving rise to distinct appraisal profiles for individual distortion classes. Additionally, we analyze the impact of cognitive restructuring on appraisal dimensions, exemplifying the emotion regulation aspect of cognitive restructuring.
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2025.clpsych-1.11
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Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2025)
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May
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2025
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Ayah Zirikly, Andrew Yates, Bart Desmet, Molly Ireland, Steven Bedrick, Sean MacAvaney, Kfir Bar, Yaakov Ophir
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Navneet Agarwal and Kairit Sirts. 2025. Exploratory Study into Relations between Cognitive Distortions and Emotional Appraisals. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2025), pages 127–139, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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