[2] One study considered the interpretation of neutral facial expressions in individuals with high and low social anxiety and found that socially anxious participants perceived neutral faces as negative regardless of the context.
[2] In contrast, the study found that non-anxious participants only showed interpretive bias in situations that created anxiety, rather than as a function of their personality.
[2] Psychiatry research has also shown that individuals with vulnerability to paranoia have a tendency to develop interpretive bias.
[3] Another studied considered how anxiety influenced which meaning of homographs was chosen.
[4] Another study found that interpretive bias depends on subsequent controlled processes.