SDT parameter values for source memory. In each panel, columns denote
parameter (left: dā, right: c), and
colors denote normative valence (blue: positive, red: negative). Error bars and
bands represent 95% bootstrap confidence intervals (Waskom et al., 2017). In Panel (b), dashed vertical
lines denote standard cutoffs for mild, moderate, and severe depression. Panel
(a) depicts higher average values of dā and lower (more
liberal) average values of c for positive vs. negative words.
Panel (b) demonstrates that as BDI score increases, dā
decreases slightly for positive words but is unaffected for negative words, and
that c decreases (becomes more liberal) for negative words but
increases (becomes more conservative) for positive words. In the context of this
model, the results for c indicate that higher BDI scores are
associated with a greater tendency to attribute old negative words to the
self-referential encoding task and old positive words to the valence task.