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Cooper, Ruth, Doehrmann, Oliver ORCID: 0000-0002-4614-4144, Fang, Angela, Gerlach, Alexander L. ORCID: 0000-0001-6794-5349, Hoijtink, Herbert J. A. and Hofmann, Stefan G. (2014). Relationship between social anxiety and perceived trustworthiness. Anxiety Stress Coping, 27 (2). S. 190 - 202. ABINGDON: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1477-2205

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Abstract

Four different patterns of biased ratings of facial expressions of emotions have been found in socially anxious participants: higher negative ratings of (1) negative, (2) neutral, and (3) positive facial expressions than nonanxious controls. As a fourth pattern, some studies have found no group differences in ratings of facial expressions of emotion. However, these studies usually employed valence and arousal ratings that arguably may be less able to reflect processing of social information. We examined the relationship between social anxiety and face ratings for perceived trustworthiness given that trustworthiness is an inherently socially relevant construct. Improving on earlier analytical strategies, we evaluated the four previously found result patterns using a Bayesian approach. Ninety-eight undergraduates rated 198 face stimuli on perceived trustworthiness. Subsequently, participants completed social anxiety questionnaires to assess the severity of social fears. Bayesian modeling indicated that the probability that social anxiety did not influence judgments of trustworthiness had at least three times more empirical support in our sample than assuming any kind of negative interpretation bias in social anxiety. We concluded that the deviant interpretation of facial trustworthiness is not a relevant aspect in social anxiety.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Cooper, Ruth UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Doehrmann, Oliver UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-4614-4144 UNSPECIFIED Fang, Angela UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Gerlach, Alexander L. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6794-5349 UNSPECIFIED Hoijtink, Herbert J. A. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Hofmann, Stefan G. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-443571
DOI:	10.1080/10615806.2013.834049
Journal or Publication Title:	Anxiety Stress Coping
Volume:	27
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 190 - 202
Date:	2014
Publisher:	TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1477-2205
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language EMOTIONAL FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; THREATENING FACES; PHOBIA INVENTORY; FEAR; INDIVIDUALS; ACTIVATION; RESPONSES; DISGUST; SCALE Multiple languages Neurosciences; Psychiatry; Psychology, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/44357