Suggestions for Researchers Attempting to Illustrate Information Processing Biases in Depressed Individuals

• Use tasks which measure responses directly pertaining to the affective valence of stimuli, since this is what depressed people are attending to. The valence identification task is one example of such a task.
  
• Use short stimulus durations on tasks in which biases in response to the semantic content of stimuli are being investigated.
  
• Look for relationships between information processing biases on different tasks