TY - JOUR
T1 - Social anxiety biases the evaluation of facial displays
T2 - Evidence from single face and multi-facial stimuli
AU - Douilliez, Céline
AU - Yzerbyt, Vincent
AU - Gilboa-Schechtman, Eva
AU - Philippot, Pierre
N1 - Funding Information: Correspondence should be addressed to: Céline Douilliez, Univ Lille-Nord de France-UDL3, UFR de Psychologie, Laboratoire PSITEC, Domaine universitaire Pont du Bois, BP 60149·59 650 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France. E-mail: [email protected] The research was supported in part by a grant from Joint Research Action (ARC 06/11·337) awarded to the second and fourth authors and in another part by a grant from the University Lille-Nord de France (BQR 2007). The authors thank Nathalie Lefèvre and Céline Bugli for their statistical support and Laure Seurin and Vincent Sézibera for their help in collecting the data.
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - This study examined the contribution of social anxiety to the evaluation of emotional facial stimuli, while controlling for the gender of participants and stimuli. Participants (n=63) completed two tasks: a single face evaluation task in which they had to evaluate angry versus neutral faces and, a facial crowd evaluation task in which they had to evaluate displays with a varying number of neutral and angry faces. In each task, participants had to evaluate the stimuli with respect to (a) the degree of disapproval expressed by the single face/crowd, and (b) the perceived difficulty of interacting with the face/crowd (emotional cost). Consistent with earlier studies, results showed that social anxiety modulated the evaluation of single faces for emotional cost, but not for disapproval ratings. In contrast, the evaluation of facial crowds was modulated by social anxiety on both ratings.
AB - This study examined the contribution of social anxiety to the evaluation of emotional facial stimuli, while controlling for the gender of participants and stimuli. Participants (n=63) completed two tasks: a single face evaluation task in which they had to evaluate angry versus neutral faces and, a facial crowd evaluation task in which they had to evaluate displays with a varying number of neutral and angry faces. In each task, participants had to evaluate the stimuli with respect to (a) the degree of disapproval expressed by the single face/crowd, and (b) the perceived difficulty of interacting with the face/crowd (emotional cost). Consistent with earlier studies, results showed that social anxiety modulated the evaluation of single faces for emotional cost, but not for disapproval ratings. In contrast, the evaluation of facial crowds was modulated by social anxiety on both ratings.
KW - Emotional facial expression
KW - Evaluation bias
KW - Interpretation bias
KW - Social anxiety
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2011.632494
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2011.632494
M3 - مقالة
C2 - 22122070
SN - 0269-9931
VL - 26
SP - 1107
EP - 1115
JO - Cognition and Emotion
JF - Cognition and Emotion
IS - 6
ER -