Documenting the late positive potential towards self-imagery within social anxiety

Kraft, Jacob D.; Grant, DeMond M.; Taylor, Danielle L.; Frosio, Kristen E.; Deros, Danielle E.; Nagel, Kaitlyn M.; White, Evan J.

doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2022.111457

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“…We did not observe group effects on the LPP. Both reduced and enhanced LPPs have been observed in depression 46,49 and social anxiety 51,53 , suggesting that the effects of these disorders on the LPP are complex and likely dependent on speci c task designs. Further research on the effect of these disorders on the LPP during social comparison is relevant, given our ndings of increased emotional responses in MD-SA participants and the observed modulation of the LPP with social comparison.…”

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“…The LPP has been reported to be reduced in depression in response to pleasant pictures 44,45 and also in response to unpleasant faces [46][47][48] ; however, an increased LPP has also been observed in depression, in response to negative and self-referential stimuli 49 . In social anxiety, an increased LPP has been observed possibly related to enhanced emotional processing [50][51][52] , while a blunted LPP has also been reported linked to attentional avoidance 53 .…”

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Event-related potentials of social comparisons in depression and social anxiety

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Nicolaisen-Sobesky

Fernández-Theoduloz

et al. 2023

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Social comparison is central in human life and can be especially challenging in depression and social anxiety. We assessed event-related potentials and emotions when receiving feedback on both their own and a co-player’s performance, in participants with depression and/or social anxiety (n=63) and healthy controls (n=72). Participants reported more negative emotions for downward (being better than someone else) and upward (being worse) comparisons vs. even outcomes, with these effects being stronger in depression and social anxiety. At the Medial Frontal Negativity, both controls and depressed participants showed enhanced negativity for upward (participant wrong, co-player correct) comparison vs. both the participant and co-player performing wrong. Socially anxious subjects showed the opposite effect, possibly due to greater expectations about being worse than others. The P300 decreased for downward and upward comparisons compared to even outcomes, which may relate to the higher levels of conflict of social inequality. Depressed and socially anxious subjects showed a blunted P300 increase over time in response to the task outcomes, suggesting deficits in allocating resources for the attention of incoming social information. This may relate to difficulties in these disorders in learning how to deal with the cognitive/emotional demands of social comparison.

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Event-related potentials of social comparisons in depression and social anxiety

Paz

Nicolaisen-Sobesky

Fernández-Theoduloz

et al. 2023

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Event‐related potentials of social comparisons in depression and social anxiety

Paz,

Nicolaisen‐Sobesky,

Fernández‐Theoduloz

et al. 2024

Psychophysiology

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Social comparison is central in human life and can be especially challenging in depression and social anxiety. We assessed event‐related potentials and emotions using a social comparison task in which participants received feedback on both their own and a co‐player's performance, in participants with depression and/or social anxiety (n = 63) and healthy controls (n = 72). Participants reported more negative emotions for downward (being better than the co‐player [participant correct, co‐player wrong]) and upward (being worse than the co‐player [participant wrong, co‐player correct]) comparisons versus even outcomes, with these effects being stronger in depression and social anxiety. At the Medial Frontal Negativity, both controls and depressed participants showed a more negative amplitude for upward comparison versus both the participant and co‐player performing wrong. Socially anxious subjects showed the opposite effect, possibly due to greater expectations about being worse than others. The P300 decreased for downward and upward comparisons compared to even outcomes, which may relate to the higher levels of conflict of social inequality. Depressed and socially anxious subjects showed a blunted P300 increase over time in response to the task outcomes, suggesting deficits in allocating resources for the attention of incoming social information. The LPP showed increased amplitude for downward and upward comparison versus the even outcomes and no group effect. Emotional findings suggest that social comparisons are more difficult for depressed and socially anxious individuals. Event‐related potentials findings may shed light on the neural substrates of these difficulties.

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The immediate and lasting effects of imagery rescripting and their associations with imagery tendency in young adults with childhood maltreatment history: An ERP study

Liu,

Niu,

Zhou

et al. 2024

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The effectiveness of imagery rescripting (IR) in reducing psychological symptoms associated with aversive memories has been confirmed across various disorders. To better understand the neural mechanisms underlying IR, we assessed the immediate and lasting effects and their associations with imagery tendency by using unpleasant pictures depicting child maltreatment within a population with childhood maltreatment (CM) history. Participants (n = 68) were instructed to engage in two experimental phases while electroencephalogram was recorded. In the rescripting phase, participants viewed neutral or unpleasant pictures and then either imagined the same pictures or rescripted unpleasant ones to assess immediate effect. In the re‐exposure phase, participants passively viewed all pictures without instruction to assess lasting effect. Participants rated their subjective valence and imagery vividness in the rescripting phase or intensity of negative feelings in the re‐exposure phase. IR led to an attenuation of the late positive potential (LPP) amplitude in the late time window (2000–6000 ms at parietal‐occipital electrodes) and a decrease in self‐reported unpleasantness during the rescripting phase. After 5‐min interval, unpleasant pictures with rescripted history elicited smaller LPP (400–1500 ms at centro‐parietal electrodes) and negative feelings than those with imagery history in the re‐exposure phase. The higher habitual use of imagery was associated with a greater reduction in late LPP during the rescripting phase and full‐time range LPP during the re‐exposure phase. The current findings suggest that IR has an immediate effect and a lasting effect on subjective and neural response in the CM population. Individuals with higher imagery tendency are likely to profit more from IR.

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Documenting the late positive potential towards self-imagery within social anxiety

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Event-related potentials of social comparisons in depression and social anxiety

Event-related potentials of social comparisons in depression and social anxiety

Event‐related potentials of social comparisons in depression and social anxiety

The immediate and lasting effects of imagery rescripting and their associations with imagery tendency in young adults with childhood maltreatment history: An ERP study

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