Judging others makes me forget: Assessing the cognitive, behavioural, and emotional consequences of other-evaluations on self-evaluations for social anxiety

Ferguson, Ryan; Ouimet, Allison J.; Gardam, Olivia

doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101763

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“…. We used the ROOS (see Ferguson et al, 2023;Appendix B) as an indicator of participants' evaluations of their own character (ROOS-S; self) or the character of the visibly anxious person (ROOS-O; other). Besides the instructions given to participants (i.e.…”

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“…We calculated one positive and one negative subscale score by summing all 10 attributes and dividing by 10, leading to a possible range between À3 (strong disagreement with attributes) and +3 (strong agreement with attributes). The positive and negative items on the ROOS selfand other-versions demonstrate good to excellent internal consistency (α = .83 to .90; Ferguson et al, 2023).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…More recently, we conducted a study that experimentally examined the role of negative other-evaluations of a visibly anxious person on negative self-evaluations (Ferguson et al, 2023). Negative other-evaluations had no effect on selfevaluative cognitive, behavioural, or emotional outcomes; however, people who were assigned to judge others negatively demonstrated impaired memory for facts from their subsequent conversation task.…”

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“…We previously found when clustering groups of undergraduate students and community members, that people who reported severe, mild-to-moderate, and low social anxiety gave mostly no judgements or positive judgements towards vignettes of hypothetical anxious people, rather than negative judgements (Ferguson & Ouimet, 2021). More recently, we conducted a study that experimentally examined the role of negative other-evaluations of a visibly anxious person on negative self-evaluations (Ferguson et al, 2023). Negative other-evaluations had no effect on self-evaluative cognitive, behavioural, or emotional outcomes; however, people who were assigned to judge others negatively demonstrated impaired memory for facts from their subsequent conversation task.…”

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“…self- and other-evaluations) on the development and maintenance of a mental health disorder via experimental paradigms (Forsyth & Zvolensky, 2001; Ouimet et al, 2021). Following results from our earlier study where we found no considerable consequences (besides memory impairment) when we examined whether negative other-evaluations caused negative self-evaluations (Ferguson et al, 2023), we examined the opposite potential causal relation: does evaluating oneself negatively cause people to evaluate others negatively?…”

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Does evaluating oneself cause evaluations of others while observing a social interaction? An experimental investigation of the cognitive and emotional consequences following a false-feedback task

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2023

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology

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Introduction Despite decades of research on how people with social anxiety evaluate themselves and others, it remains unclear whether people who evaluate themselves negatively also evaluate others negatively. Findings from other-evaluation research are equivocal, perhaps attributable to methodology differences and inconsistent operationalization. Social-cognitive and cognitive-behavioural models suggest that negative self-evaluations may cause participants to subsequently evaluate a visibly anxious person negatively. We tested this hypothesis experimentally, using a video-recorded social interaction and novel false-feedback manipulation. Methods: 169 unselected participants completed baseline questionnaires and a 10-min impromptu conversation task with a confederate. We randomly assigned participants to receive positive, ambiguous, or negative false-feedback about their performance. Next, they evaluated their own performance and watched a recorded conversation between an anxious and confident speaker. Finally, they evaluated the anxious person’s performance. Results: Our manipulation was effective; participants in the negative-feedback condition rated themselves more negatively. However, no differences emerged between conditions on most cognitive and emotional outcomes. Discussion: Evaluating oneself negatively, on its own, may not lead people to evaluate a visibly anxious person in a recorded social interaction negatively in a single-session experiment within an unselected sample. Future studies should examine this relationship with a clinical sample across time and contexts.

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Section: Ratings Of Others Scale (Roos)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ratings Of Others Scale (Roos)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%