Neural correlates of negative expectancy and impaired social feedback processing in social anxiety

Gu, Ruolei; Ao, Xiang; Mo, Licheng; Zhang, Dandan

doi:10.1093/scan/nsaa038

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“…The present study extended this result to external, social feedback: people are more efficient in voluntarily forgetting information conveying social rejection than social acceptance. At a neural level, our ERP results suggest that such a mnemic neglect effect originated at the encoding stage: negative social feedback elicited smaller LPP amplitudes than positive feedback, which is in line with previous literature on the processing of social emotional materials (Bublatzky et al., 2014; Funkhouser et al., 2020; Gu et al., 2020) and the insufficient integration theory proposed by Pinter et al. (2011).…”

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“…(2020) observed in an Island Getaway Task that participants showed larger LPP amplitudes for positive, compared to negative, social feedback given by peers. Similarly, our group used the Social Judgment Paradigm and found in individuals with a low but not high level of social anxiety that a positive social judgment evoked larger LPP amplitudes than a negative social judgment did (Gu et al., 2020). This LPP phenomenon might be explained by the mnemic neglect effect (Pinter et al., 2011), which proposes that people prefer to allocate abundant cognitive resources to elaborately integrate self‐affirming information at the cost of insufficient memory encoding of self‐threatening information.…”

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Forgetting positive social feedback is difficult: ERP evidence in a directed forgetting paradigm

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Voluntary forgetting of unwanted memories is an adaptive cognitive function. However, it remains unknown how voluntary forgetting of unwanted social feedback may influence subsequent memories and evaluations, and what the underlying neurocognitive processes are. Here, we presented participants with peer photos together with feedback indicating social acceptance or rejection, followed by “remember” or “forget” instructive cues, while electroencephalograms were recorded during the experiment. We examined the Directed Forgetting (DF) effect in a recognition memory test, and tested participants' explicit and implicit attitudes toward the peers using a social evaluation task and an affect misattribution procedure (AMP). Both the memory test and the AMP were examined immediately and 3 days after the DF task so to estimate both the instant and the long‐term effects of memory control. Behaviorally, immediate memory test showed smaller DF effect for positive than negative social feedback, which suggests that forgetting positive social feedback was more difficult than forgetting negative social feedback. Regarding the ERP results, although participants showed comparable frontal N2 amplitudes (reflecting inhibitory control efforts) following the instruction of forgetting positive and negative social feedback, positive feedback elicited larger late positive potential (LPP) amplitudes than negative feedback during initial encoding phase, suggesting an encoding bias for positive self‐relevant information. Intriguingly, voluntary efforts to forget negative social feedback enhanced people's explicit and implicit evaluations toward the feedback senders. These findings provide new evidence for the adaptive function of memory control, which broadens the influence of voluntary forgetting in the context of social interaction and social evaluation.

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Forgetting positive social feedback is difficult: ERP evidence in a directed forgetting paradigm

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“…Further, the ERP results showed distinct patterns with the self-reported satisfaction score, indicating a deviation between implicit and explicit attitudes ( Lust and Bartholow, 2009 ; Wu et al. , 2016 ; Gu et al. , 2020 ): although the participants explicitly claimed that they were more satisfied with a likeable player’s gains compared to losses, their implicit attitude might be different.…”

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Context-based interpersonal relationship modulates social comparison between outcomes: an event-related potential study

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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Social comparison is a common behavior that largely determines people’s experience of decision outcome. Previous research has showed that interpersonal relationship plays a pivotal role in social comparison. In the current study, we investigated whether the manipulation of context-based relationship would affect participants’ comparison of self-outcome and other-outcome. Participants first finished a trust game with likeable (dislikeable) partner and then they were involved in a gambling task and observed the outcomes for themselves and for partners. According to self-reports, participants were more satisfied with likeable partner’s gains than losses only when they received gains, but they were always more satisfied with dislikeable player’s losses compared to gains. Event-related potentials including the feedback-related negativity (FRN), P3 and late positive component (LPC) were sensitive to context-based relationship. Specifically, the prediction error signal (indexed by the FRN) was largest when participants received losses but dislikeable player received gains. Meanwhile, the P3 indicates that participants had stronger motivation to outperform dislikeable player. Finally, the LPC was larger when participants received the same outcomes with dislikeable players. In general, our results support the key point of the self-evaluation maintenance model that personal closeness modulates subjective sensitivity when drawing a comparison of one’s outcomes with other’s outcomes.

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“…Social anxiety is defined as the fear of being in social or performative contexts that entail a potential evaluation or scrutiny by other people. A heightened level of social anxiety is accompanied by distortions in information processing, including attention, memory, and response biases ( Gu et al, 2020 ). These biases are reflected in the increased weight of negative information, which means that individuals with high levels of social anxiety are hypervigilant regarding negative social stimuli ( Harrewijn et al, 2017 ) and view social situations in an excessively negative fashion ( Kashdan, 2007 ).…”

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The Contagion of Donation Behaviors Changes Along With the Abatement of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Intertemporal Survey Experiment

Liu

2021

Front. Psychol.

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We conducted an intertemporal online experiment to examine the contagion of others’ positive and negative donation behaviors. We collected two sets of data during and after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in China. The participants donated to the charitable fund, “Against COVID-19, The China Charity Federation Is on the Move.” We further investigated the mediating effect of social anxiety on the link between the contagion of donation behaviors and the changes in the COVID-19 situation. A total of 1022 participants (Mage = 22.68, 63.01% females) participated in the intertemporal online experiment and were considered in the statistical analyses. Our findings were as follows. First, the donation behaviors of others significantly changed these participants’ initial donation decisions, with increased or decreased donation amounts being associated with a positive or negative donation behavior, respectively. Others’ positive donation behavior was more likely to nudge these participants into changing their initial decisions (31.82%, Mean = 15.177, SD = 1.586) than negative donation behavior (18.28%, Mean = 12.122, SD = 1.908) during the peak of the pandemic. However, such difference disappeared after the peak because the contagion of positive donation behavior significantly decreased along with the abatement of the pandemic. Second, the participants’ social anxiety decreased along with the abatement of the pandemic, and social anxiety completely mediated the relationship between the pandemic abatement and the decrease in the contagion of positive donation behaviors. These findings advance our understanding of the motivations and influence mechanism of individuals’ donation decisions in the current pandemic situation and help make informed policy making decisions.

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Neural correlates of negative expectancy and impaired social feedback processing in social anxiety

Cited by 32 publications

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Forgetting positive social feedback is difficult: ERP evidence in a directed forgetting paradigm

Forgetting positive social feedback is difficult: ERP evidence in a directed forgetting paradigm

Context-based interpersonal relationship modulates social comparison between outcomes: an event-related potential study

The Contagion of Donation Behaviors Changes Along With the Abatement of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Intertemporal Survey Experiment

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