Social anxiety and the interpretation of morphed facial expressions following exclusion and inclusion

Azoulay, Roy; Berger, Uri; Keshet, Hadar; Niedenthal, Paula M.

doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2019.101511

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“…SAD is characterized by major fear in one or more social situations, and whenever possible individuals with SAD will choose to avoid their feared situation (Aderka et al, 2012; American Psychiatric Association, 2013; Rapee & Heimberg, 1997). Research studies have succeeded in identifying a few cognitive characteristics of SAD, including biases in attention (e.g., Lin, Qian, He, Wen, & Li, 2020; McGlade, Craske, & Nile, 2020), interpretation (Azoulay, Berger, Keshet, Niedenthal, & Gilboa‐Schechtman, 2020; Gutiérrez‐García, Fernández‐Martín, Del Líbano, & Calvo, 2019), memory (Amir & Bomyea, 2011; Yoon, Kutz, LeMoult, & Joormann, 2017), and perception (Brooks et al, 2008, Van de Cruys, Schouten, & Wagemans, 2013).…”

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Biased distance estimation in social anxiety disorder: A new avenue for understanding avoidance behavior

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Objectives: People regulate their interpersonal space appropriately to obtain a comfortable distance for interacting with others. Socially anxious individuals are especially prone to discomfort from and fear of physical closeness, leading them to prefer a greater interpersonal distance from others. Previous studies also indicate that fear can enhance the threat-related elements of a threatening stimulus. For example, spider phobia is associated with estimating spiders as bigger and faster than they actually are. Nonetheless, it is still unclear whether the preference of those with social anxiety disorder (SAD) to maintain greater distance from others is associated with biased estimations of interpersonal distance. Materials and Methods: A total of 87 participants (44 clinically diagnosed with SAD and 43 control) performed validated computerized and ecological tasks in a real-life setting while social space estimations and preferences were measured. Results: Participants with SAD felt comfortable when maintaining a greater distance from unfamiliar others compared to the control group and estimated unfamiliar others to be closer to them than they actually were. Moreover, the estimation bias predicted their preferred distance from strangers, indicating a strong association between estimation bias severity and actual approach-avoidance behavior. Conclusion: Our findings indicate that distance estimation bias underlies avoidance behavior in SAD, suggesting the involvement of a new cognitive mechanism in personal space regulation.

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“…interpretation (Azoulay, Berger, Keshet, Niedenthal, & Gilboa-Schechtman, 2020;Gutiérrez-García, Fernández-Martín, Del Líbano, & Calvo, 2019), memory (Amir & Bomyea, 2011;Yoon, Kutz, LeMoult, & Joormann, 2017), and perception (Brooks et al, 2008, Van de Cruys, Schouten, & Wagemans, 2013.…”

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“…A greater negative relationship was reported between pattern-reversed latency and feared social interaction scores. Generally, individuals with SAD have a capability for detecting the faster offset visual stimulus compared to LSA as reported recently (Azoulay et al, 2020), which means detection latency is negatively related to SAD severity.…”

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Review of EEG, ERP, and Brain Connectivity Estimators as Predictive Biomarkers of Social Anxiety Disorder

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Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by a fear of negative evaluation, negative self-belief and extreme avoidance of social situations. These recurrent symptoms are thought to maintain the severity and substantial impairment in social and cognitive thoughts. SAD is associated with a disruption in neuronal networks implicated in emotional regulation, perceptual stimulus functions, and emotion processing, suggesting a network system to delineate the electrocortical endophenotypes of SAD. This paper seeks to provide a comprehensive review of the most frequently studied electroencephalographic (EEG) spectral coupling, event-related potential (ERP), visualevent potential (VEP), and other connectivity estimators in social anxiety during rest, anticipation, stimulus processing, and recovery states. A search on Web of Science provided 97 studies that document electrocortical biomarkers and relevant constructs pertaining to individuals with SAD. This study aims to identify SAD neuronal biomarkers and provide insight into the differences in these biomarkers based on EEG, ERPs, VEP, and brain connectivity networks in SAD patients and healthy controls (HC). Furthermore, we proposed recommendations to improve methods of delineating the electrocortical endophenotypes of SAD, e.g., a fusion of EEG with other modalities such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and magnetoencephalograms (MEG), to realize better effectiveness than EEG alone, in order to ultimately evolve the treatment selection process, and to review the possibility of using electrocortical measures in the early diagnosis and endophenotype examination of SAD.

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“…Based on the reported moderate effects in studies that investigated the relation between gender and PTD ( 4 ), a sample size of 210 was chosen as providing sufficient power for identifying the anticipated effects [G*Power 3.1; ( 52 )]. A greater number of participants ( N = 374) was recruited based on the exclusion rate in prior similar studies ( 53 ). Participants were recruited via the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform and received 5$ for their participation.…”

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“…All participants were from the United States with English as their native language. Exclusion criteria were: (a) filling out the survey from an I.P used by another participant/s [( 53 ); n = 37]; (b) completing the autobiographical task in a non-conscientious manner (i.e., writing irrelevant text in the description of the memory as assessed by the two authors; n = 126). The final sample consisted of 211 participants (80 women).…”

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Social Construction and Evolutionary Perspectives on Gender Differences in Post-traumatic Distress: The Case of Status Loss Events

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2022

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Women report greater post-traumatic distress (PTD) than men following physically threatening events. However, gender differences in PTD following social stressors such as status losses are understudied. Whereas the social construction account points to a general sensitivity in women following any type of stressor, the evolutionary account suggests enhanced sensitivity to status losses in men, especially following inter-males aggressions. These propositions were examined in two studies (Study 1, N = 211; Study 2, N = 436). Participants were asked to recall a status loss and to fill out measures assessing PTD and depression severity. In line with the evolutionary account, men, as compared to women, displayed enhanced PTD following status loss. Status losses conducted by men against men were associated with greater PTD than were instances involving other target-aggressor pairings. Finally, age was negatively associated with PTD in men but not in women. The examination of evolutionary challenges modifies the standard view linking the female gender to enhanced sensitivity to trauma. Thus, the pattern of enhanced sensitivity to stressful events appears to be affected by gender- and development-specific adaptive challenges.

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Social anxiety and the interpretation of morphed facial expressions following exclusion and inclusion

Cited by 12 publications

References 55 publications

Biased distance estimation in social anxiety disorder: A new avenue for understanding avoidance behavior

Biased distance estimation in social anxiety disorder: A new avenue for understanding avoidance behavior

Review of EEG, ERP, and Brain Connectivity Estimators as Predictive Biomarkers of Social Anxiety Disorder

Social Construction and Evolutionary Perspectives on Gender Differences in Post-traumatic Distress: The Case of Status Loss Events

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