Encoding processes in social anxiety

Heinrichs, Nina; Hofmann, S.

doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2004.03.001

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“…Social anxiety is largely influenced by biased cognitive phenomena (Clark & Wells, 1995;Heinrichs & Hofmann, 2004;Mellings & Alden, 2000;Rapee & Heimberg, 1997). Such distortions can occur in anticipation of social situations, or after they have occurred, as is the case in postevent processing (PEP), which involves reviewing past interactions in great detail (for a review, see Brozovich & Heimberg, 2008;Clark & Wells, 1995;Rapee & Heimberg, 1997).…”

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The interactive influence of social anxiety and experimentally induced postevent processing on cannabis use.

Ecker

Buckner

2018

Translational Issues in Psychological Science

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Cannabis use is a major public health concern, and identification of factors that increase risk of negative consequences of cannabis use may aid in the prevention and treatment of such disorders. Social anxiety has been shown to be robustly linked to negative consequences of cannabis use and cannabis use disorder. However, mechanisms that underlie these co-occurring conditions are not well understood. Socially anxious individuals engage in post-event processing (PEP; i.e., reviewing past social events in great detail), which tends to increase their negative affectivity. Given that negative affectivity can increase cannabis craving, PEP may place socially anxious individuals at risk for cannabis use. The current study set out to test this hypothesis using a web-based experimental design. Participants ( = 191) were randomized to complete one of three tasks, a negative PEP induction task, positive PEP induction task, and a neutral control task. Participants completed measures of cannabis use at baseline and one week after the task. Among participants engaging in negative PEP, social anxiety was related to increase in cannabis use quantity following the task relative to the other conditions. Negative PEP may be an important therapeutic target for socially anxious cannabis users.

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The interactive influence of social anxiety and experimentally induced postevent processing on cannabis use.

Ecker

Buckner

2018

Translational Issues in Psychological Science

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“…Children listened to words presented by either male or female speakers and were asked to identify the gender of the speaker. While it is unlikely that simply hearing a word triggers a deep semantic analysis (Heinrichs & Hofmann, 2004), single words do trigger some processing, as can be seen in priming (Plaut & Booth, 2000) and semantic incongruity tasks (McCallum, Farmer, & Pocock, 1984). The words presented in this study varied in social and emotional content in hopes of targeting the issue of peer relationships and friendships.…”

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Temperamental contributions to children’s performance in an emotion-word processing task: A behavioral and electrophysiological study

Pérez‐Edgar

Fox

2007

Brain and Cognition

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Seven-year-old children (N=65) participating in a study of the influence of infant temperament on socioemotional development performed an auditory selective attention task involving words that varied in both affective (positive vs. negative) and social (social vs. nonsocial) content. Parent report of contemporaneous child temperament was also collected, and individual differences in self-regulation in the affective (soothability) and cognitive (attentional control) domains were noted. Overall, children showed slower responses to stimuli that were either social or negative in content, with the largest effect elicited by words that possessed both traits. Children rated high in soothability and attentional control showed slower responses to social negative words. The other children showed little to no differential response patterns across the word categories. ERPs collected during the task indicated that processing differences were evident in the later more cognitive components of the ERP, especially in children low in attentional control. These findings indicate that performance on an auditory selective attention task can assist in identifying underlying patterns of affective processing.

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Waiting is the hardest part: Anticipating medical test results affects processing and recall of important information

Portnoy

2010

Social Science & Medicine

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Encoding processes in social anxiety

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

The interactive influence of social anxiety and experimentally induced postevent processing on cannabis use.

The interactive influence of social anxiety and experimentally induced postevent processing on cannabis use.

Temperamental contributions to children’s performance in an emotion-word processing task: A behavioral and electrophysiological study

Waiting is the hardest part: Anticipating medical test results affects processing and recall of important information

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