Fear-relevant selective associations and social anxiety: Absence of a positive bias

被引:44
作者
Garner, M
Mogg, K
Bradley, BP
机构
[1] Univ Southampton, Sch Psychol, Ctr Study Emot & Motivat, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
[2] Univ Southampton, Sch Med, Div Clin Neurosci, Southampton SO9 5NH, Hants, England
基金
英国惠康基金; 英国经济与社会研究理事会;
关键词
covariation bias; on-line bias; faces; social anxiety;
D O I
10.1016/j.brat.2004.12.007
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
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. (c) 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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页码:201 / 217
页数:17
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