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Task framing reduces emotion decoding negativity biases in social anxiety
Authors:Steven G. Young  William Lamson
Affiliation:1. Psychology Department, Baruch College, City University of New York;2. School of Psychology, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Abstract:Social anxiety is associated with difficulty in decoding emotional expressions. In this work, we present two experiments demonstrating that manipulating the apparent social relevance of an emotion‐identification task can reduce these difficulties. In Experiment 1, we find that social anxiety predicts an oversensitivity to anger expressions when participants are told they are completing a task that measures social skills. However, when the same task is framed as a measure of intellectual skills, this oversensitivity to anger is eliminated. Experiment 2 finds that social anxiety interferes with participants' ability to discriminate real from fake smiles when participants are told they are completing a test of social skills, but not when they are completing an ostensible measure of intellectual skills.
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