The impact of social threat cues on a card sorting task with attentional-shifting demands

Mohlman, Jan; DeVito, Alyssa

doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2017.02.004

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“…Finally, recent studies have further supported that SA is associated with a struggle to update an initially negative impression of another person in the light of new positive information 16 – 18 . These deficits appear to be selective to social context 17 , 19 . Those impairments were also found to be specific to positively updating negative information and absent in negatively updating positive information 3 – 6 , 15 , 16 .…”

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Better social reversal learning is associated with a more social approach across time

Zabag,

Kivity,

Gilboa-Schechtman

et al. 2024

Sci Rep

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Flexibly updating behaviors towards others is crucial for adaptive social functioning. Previous studies have found that difficulties in flexibly updating behaviors are associated with social anxiety (SA). However, it is unclear whether such difficulties relate to actual social behaviors. The current study investigated the relationships between negative-to-positive social reversal learning, social approach behavior, and SA across time. Participants (MTurk, Time 1 = 275, Time 2 = 126, 16 weeks later) completed a performance-based social reversal-learning task. In the initial phase, participants learned that interactions with certain individuals are associated with negative outcomes, whereas interactions with other individuals are associated with positive outcomes. In the reversal phase, these associations were reversed, requiring participants to update their behaviors. The relationships between the performance in the task, SA severity, and social approach behavior reported by participants were assessed cross-sectionally and longitudinally. We found that negative-to-positive updating was negatively associated with SA severity. Furthermore, negative-to-positive updating was positively correlated with social approach behavior, both cross-sectionally and prospectively. Hence, individuals with better negative-to-positive updating at Time 1 reported significantly more social approach behaviors across time. The results support the role of negative-to-positive updating as a mechanism associated with SA and social approach, advancing and refining interpersonal and cognitive theories of SA.

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Better social reversal learning is associated with a more social approach across time

Zabag,

Kivity,

Gilboa-Schechtman

et al. 2024

Sci Rep

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“…SA was found to be associated with detecting angry expressions faster than happy ones (Gilboa-Schechtman et al, 1999;Moriya & Tanno, 2011) and subsequently with greater avoidance of angry faces (Heuer et al, 2007). Moreover, compared to low-SA individuals, high-SA individuals were less able to flexibly update their beliefs when the stimuli involved angry rather than neutral faces (Mohlman & DeVito, 2017). Thus, the third aim of the current study was to test whether SA is associated with enhanced learning and reduced updating of angry facial expressions compared to happy and neutral facial expressions.…”

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You never get a chance to undo a negative first impression: Social anxiety is associated with impaired positive updating of social information

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Azoulay

Rinck

et al. 2023

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…There is reason to believe that more reliable methods of assessment, such as the TL‐BS method, may reveal elevated attention bias variability in social anxiety disorder. It is well documented that individuals with social anxiety disorder have impaired executive control of attentional processing (Mohlman & DeVito, 2017; Wieser et al, 2009), a deficit that is thought to contribute to anxiety psychopathology across disorders (Eysenck et al, 2007). Impaired attentional control could lead to problems inhibiting attention to threatening images in the dot‐probe task, which could increase variability in reaction times between trials.…”

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The use of trial‐level bias scores to examine attention bias and attention bias variability among people with and without social anxiety disorder

2021

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Background: Cognitive models of anxiety propose that people with anxiety disorders show elevated levels of attention bias toward threat, but the most commonly used index of attention bias, which measures the construct with an aggregate score of multiple trials across an experimental session, shows poor testretest reliability. Newer indices that measure attention bias dynamically on a trial-to-trial basis show good reliability and enable researchers to measure not only overall attention bias toward threat, but also attention bias variability.Methods: The current study tested the hypothesis that people diagnosed with social anxiety disorder would show higher attention bias variability and higher attention bias toward threat when calculated dynamically and when calculated using the traditional aggregate index. Participants diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (n = 47) and controls (n = 57) completed a 160-trial version of the dot-probe task using emotional and neutral images of faces as stimuli.Results: Relative to controls, participants diagnosed with social anxiety disorder showed higher mean bias toward threat, but only when calculated using trial-level bias scores. There were no differences between groups on attention bias variability.

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The impact of social threat cues on a card sorting task with attentional-shifting demands

Cited by 9 publications

References 43 publications

Better social reversal learning is associated with a more social approach across time

Better social reversal learning is associated with a more social approach across time

You never get a chance to undo a negative first impression: Social anxiety is associated with impaired positive updating of social information

The use of trial‐level bias scores to examine attention bias and attention bias variability among people with and without social anxiety disorder

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