Affective outcomes in superficial and intimate interactions: Roles of social anxiety and curiosity |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, MS 3F5, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA;2. University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA;1. Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy;2. Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, FL, USA;3. Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Germany;4. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Oklahoma, USA;1. Adam Mickiewicz University, Instytut Psychologii, Ul Szamarzewskiego 89, Poznań, 60-568, Poland;2. George Mason University, Mail Stop 3F5, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States;1. Institut des Sciences Cognitives, CNRS, Lyon, France;2. Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Nijmegen, the Netherlands;3. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LPNC, 38000 Grenoble, France;4. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary;1. Department of Cognitive Sciences and The Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel;2. James Marshall Chair of Psychology, The Department of Psychology and The Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel |
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| Abstract: | We examined the roles of trait curiosity and social anxiety (and the contributions of the behavioral inhibition and activation systems; BIS, BAS) in predicting positive and negative affect (PA; NA) during social interactions. In Study 1, individuals interacted with same-sex confederates on topics that gradually escalated in emotional self-disclosure. In Study 2, cross-sex pairs of students were randomly assigned to a closeness-generating or small-talk interaction. There were several consistent findings across studies. Higher curiosity uniquely predicted greater interpersonally generated PA. Higher social anxiety uniquely predicted greater interpersonally generated NA in Study 1, and in Study 2, this relationship varied by social context. Specifically, high compared to low socially anxious individuals reported greater NA during small-talk, with no differences during intimate interactions. Furthermore, Study 2 demonstrated that individuals with stronger BAS’s experienced greater PA in the intimate compared to small-talk condition. There appear to be important traits that differentially contribute to appetitive and aversive interpersonal experiences. |
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