Confirmation Bias Towards Treatments of Depressive Disorders in Social Tagging

The relative size of treatment tags in a tag cloud was either larger for antidepressant treatments or psychotherapy treatments.

Participants thought back of situations in which they were either confident or doubtful about their own knowledge. This should elicit a mindset where participants are more or less confident about their own prior attitudes.

The source credibility of the community that allegedly collected and labelled the blog posts was either high or low in terms of expertise. Either experts (high credibility) or first semester students (low credibility) did allegedly collect blog posts. This was indicated by banners on top of the navigation platform in the internet browser.