Fig. 1.

The best fitting model with circular relations among cognitive biases and anxiety on each of the three time points including residual correlations between the three repeated measurements of the same variable. Standardized path coefficients and residual correlations are shown. C-bias confirmation bias, I-bias interpretation bias. Equality constraints apply to unstandardized path coefficients. Standardized coefficients are not exactly equal across time points due to changes in variance of anxiety, C-bias, and I-bias over time. Age and gender are not displayed in the figure, although they were entered as exogenous variables with an effect on all psychological variables in the model