Fear-relevant selective associations and social anxiety: absence of a positive bias
Fear-relevant selective associations and social anxiety: absence of a positive bias
An illusory correlation paradigm was used to compare high and low socially anxious individuals’ initial, on-line and a posteriori covariation estimates between emotional faces and aversive, pleasant and neutral outcomes. Overall, participants demonstrated an initial expectancy bias for aversive outcomes following angry faces, and pleasant outcomes following happy faces. On-line expectancy biases indicated that initial biases were extinguished during the task, with the exception of low socially anxious individuals who continued to over-associate positive social cues with pleasant outcomes. In addition to lacking this protective positive on-line bias, the high social anxiety group reported retrospectively more negative social cues than the low socially anxious group. Findings are discussed in relation to similar evidence from recent interpretive and memory paradigms.
covariation bias, on-line bias, faces, social anxiety
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Garner, Matthew
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Mogg, Karin
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Bradley, Brendan P.
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February 2006
Garner, Matthew
3221c5b3-b951-4fec-b456-ec449e4ce072
Mogg, Karin
5f1474af-85f5-4fd3-8eb6-0371be848e30
Bradley, Brendan P.
bdacaa6c-528b-4086-9448-27ebfe463514
Garner, Matthew, Mogg, Karin and Bradley, Brendan P.
(2006)
Fear-relevant selective associations and social anxiety: absence of a positive bias.
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44 (2), .
(doi:10.1016/j.brat.2004.12.007).
Abstract
An illusory correlation paradigm was used to compare high and low socially anxious individuals’ initial, on-line and a posteriori covariation estimates between emotional faces and aversive, pleasant and neutral outcomes. Overall, participants demonstrated an initial expectancy bias for aversive outcomes following angry faces, and pleasant outcomes following happy faces. On-line expectancy biases indicated that initial biases were extinguished during the task, with the exception of low socially anxious individuals who continued to over-associate positive social cues with pleasant outcomes. In addition to lacking this protective positive on-line bias, the high social anxiety group reported retrospectively more negative social cues than the low socially anxious group. Findings are discussed in relation to similar evidence from recent interpretive and memory paradigms.
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Published date: February 2006
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covariation bias, on-line bias, faces, social anxiety
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/27575
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