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Gone fishin’… for distinct patterns of belief-updating in late-life worry and rumination

  • By

  • Angela M. Ianni

  • Vanessa M. Brown

  • Andrea M. Weinstein

  • Mingqian Li

  • Carmen Andreescu

  • Andrew R. Gerlach

  • July 15, 2026

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    Worry and rumination are core symptoms of anxiety and depression, particularly challenging to treat in older adults.

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    A Bayesian model was used to analyze belief-updating in 83 older participants, focusing on worry and rumination.

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    Worry severity correlated with lower prior weight, while rumination was linked to low update strength in belief-updating.

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    Neither worry nor rumination showed associations with overall performance in the belief-updating task.

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    Unique alterations in belief-updating may contribute to the distinct profiles of worry and rumination in late-life anxiety.

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Gone fishin’… for distinct patterns of belief-updating in late-life worry and rumination

  • by Angela M. Ianni, Vanessa M. Brown, Andrea M. Weinstein, Mingqian Li, Carmen Andreescu, Andrew R. Gerlach

  • July 15, 2026

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