Social phobics do not misinterpret facial expression of emotion

Philippot, Pierre; Douilliez, Céline

doi:10.1016/j.brat.2004.05.005

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“…A negativity bias of SAD patients (the tendency to rate faces as generally more unpleasant than controls) could not be shown in the present study. This finding corresponds with previous research which suggests that SAD patients do not differ from healthy controls with regard to the explicit classification of affective facial expressions (e.g., Philippot & Douilliez, 2005). Guyer et al (2007), as well as Melfsen and Florin (2002), found no overall deficits in emotion classification in a sample of (socially) anxious children and adolescents.…”

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Facial affect processing in social anxiety disorder with early onset: evidence of an intensity amplification bias

Schwab

Schienle

2017

Social Neuroscience

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The present event-related potential (ERP) study investigated for the first time whether children with early-onset social anxiety disorder (SAD) process affective facial expressions of varying intensities differently than non-anxious controls. Participants were 15 SAD patients and 15 nonanxious controls (mean age of 9 years). They were presented with schematic faces displaying anger and happiness at four intensity levels (25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%), as well as with neutral faces. ERPs in early and later time windows (P100, N170, late positivity [LP]), as well as affective ratings (valence and arousal) for the faces, were recorded. SAD patients rated the faces as generally more arousing, regardless of the type of emotion and intensity. Moreover, they displayed enhanced right-parietal LP (350-650 ms). Both arousal ratings and LP reflect stimulus intensity. Therefore, this study provides first evidence of an intensity amplification bias in pediatric SAD during facial affect processing. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Facial affect processing in social anxiety disorder with early onset: evidence of an intensity amplification bias

Schwab

Schienle

2017

Social Neuroscience

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“…Contrary to this conclusion, however, McClure and Nowicki (2001) found no relationship between two measures of self-reported social avoidance and the ability to correctly label emotional facial expressions among children 8-10 years old. Similarly, a recent study conducted with adults found no differences between social phobics and normal controls with respect to interpreting emotional facial expressions (Philipot & Douilliez, 2005). The latter study is significant because it overcame methodological weaknesses of prior studies with adults that suggested an association between shyness and the processing of human facial emotions.…”

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Shyness and emotion‐processing skills in preschoolers: a 6‐month longitudinal study

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Cerna²,

Downs

2007

Infant and Child Development

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The present study utilized a short-term longitudinal research design to examine the hypothesis that shyness in preschoolers is differentially related to different aspects of emotion processing. Using teacher reports of shyness and performance measures of emotion processing, including (1) facial emotion recognition, (2) non-facial emotion recognition, and (3) emotional perspectivetaking, we examined 337 Head Start attendees twice at a 24-week interval. Results revealed significant concurrent and longitudinal relationships between shyness and facial emotion recognition, and either minimal or non-existent relationships between shyness and the other aspects of emotion processing. Correlational analyses of concurrent assessments revealed that shyness predicted poorer facial emotion recognition scores for negative emotions (sad, angry, and afraid), but not a positive emotion (happy). Analyses of change over time, on the other hand, revealed that shyness predicted change in facial emotion recognition scores for all four measured emotions. Facial emotion recognition scores did not predict changes in shyness. Results are discussed with respect to expanding the scope of research on shyness and emotion processing to include timedependent studies that allow for the specification of developmental processes.

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“…These results suggest that threatening interpretations of other people's ambiguous behavior were specific to social anxiety, and that threatening interpretation bias may be a maintenance factor for social anxiety (Amir and Foa 2001;Clark and Wells 1995). Recent studies on interpretation bias for facial expressions (Philippot and Douilliez 2005;Schofield et al 2007) have indicated that although individuals with high social anxiety do not differ from non-anxious individuals in identification of emotional expressions, high socially anxious individuals show an interpretation bias in estimating the impact of social stimuli on the individual (cost estimation). Because it is possible that threatening interpretations examined in this study reflect cost estimation, it is suggested that further investigation would be prudent.…”

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“…Some studies have investigated the interpretation of other people's nonverbal behaviors including facial expressions (Philippot and Douilliez 2005;Pozo et al 1991;Schofield et al 2007;Winton et al 1995). For example, Pozo et al (1991) found that socially anxious individuals (n = 31) consistently rated lower interest and acceptance for facial expressions of an interaction partner presented on a videotape than non-socially anxious volunteers (n = 34).…”

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Interpretation Bias for Ambiguous Social Behavior Among Individuals with High and Low Levels of Social Anxiety

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This study investigated whether high socially anxious individuals interpret other people's ambiguous behavior in a more negative or threatening manner in comparison to low socially anxious individuals, after controlling for the effects of depression. High and low socially anxious participants (N = 31) gave a speech. During the speech, a confederate performed ambiguous behaviors. After the speech, participants were asked to answer questions about their interpretation of the confederate's behaviors using open-ended questions and rating scales. The results showed that the high socially anxious participants interpreted the confederate's ambiguous behavior in a more negative and threatening manner as measured by the rating scales, and in a less neutral manner as measured by the open-ended responses in comparison to the low socially anxious participants. After controlling for the effects of depression, the effects of social anxiety on the threat rating score remained significant. These results suggest that social anxiety is partially related to threatening interpretations of other's ambiguous behaviors.

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Social phobics do not misinterpret facial expression of emotion

Cited by 115 publications

References 30 publications

Facial affect processing in social anxiety disorder with early onset: evidence of an intensity amplification bias

Facial affect processing in social anxiety disorder with early onset: evidence of an intensity amplification bias

Shyness and emotion‐processing skills in preschoolers: a 6‐month longitudinal study

Interpretation Bias for Ambiguous Social Behavior Among Individuals with High and Low Levels of Social Anxiety

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