Threat Interference Biases Predict Socially Anxious Behavior: The Role of Inhibitory Control and Minute of Stressor

Gorlin, Eugenia I.; Teachman, Bethany A.

doi:10.1016/j.beth.2015.03.001

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“…Similar results were found by Pe and colleagues (2015), although better working memory updating facilitated both greater responsivity to emotion films as well as greater down-regulation of emotional responses. Other researchers have focused on understanding related components of the emotion regulatory process, demonstrating a clear association between response inhibition (e.g., Gorlin & Teachman, 2015) and set-shifting (Coifman, Halachoff, & Nylocks, 2018) in emotion regulatory success.…”

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Predicting negative affect variability and spontaneous emotion regulation: Can working memory span tasks estimate emotion regulatory capacity?

Coifman¹,

Kane²,

Bishop³

et al. 2021

Emotion

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We tested the association of 2 versions of the Reading Span Task of working memory capacity, a conventional neutral version (RSPAN-N) and an adapted task with incidental negative content (RSPAN-E), for predicting objective indicators (behavioral displays; autonomic activation) of negative emotion regulation during a laboratory provocation, as well as reported negative emotion in daily life experience sampling. Across 2 samples, both tasks demonstrated utility as es timates of spontaneous negative emotion regulation capacity, predicting down-regulation of negative emotion in da ily life and during a Jab challenge. In addition, scores from both tasks appear to be independent of self-reported distress, a confound often present in studies of emotion regulation. There was some incremental evidence that the RSPAN-E may have advantages over the RSPAN-N for predicting some indices of emotion processing. Together these findings provide further evidence for the role of working memory (among other executive-control abilities) in emotion regulatory processing and suggest that RSPAN tasks may have considerable potential as tools in research on emotion processing and emotion regulation in psychological health and adjustment.

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Section: Working Memory and Emotion Regulatory Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Predicting negative affect variability and spontaneous emotion regulation: Can working memory span tasks estimate emotion regulatory capacity?

Coifman¹,

Kane²,

Bishop³

et al. 2021

Emotion

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“…A rating was assigned for each of the five behavioral indicators for every two-minute segment of the four social interactions, resulting in two ratings per indicator for the four-minute dyadic interactions and three ratings per indicator for the sixminute group interactions. Subsequently, following Gorlin and Teachman (2015), the two to three ratings for each of the five behavioral indicators within an experience were averaged to obtain an average behavioral indicator score for that experience. Thus, for each social experience, a participant had an average score for conversation flow, another for voice quality, and so on.…”

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Social anxiety and concordance in emotional responses across levels of evaluative threat

Toner

Larrazabal

Liu³

et al. 2022

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Cognitive-behavioral theories of emotional disorders assert that emotional responding comprises concordant responses (e.g., co-occurring subjective distress and physiological arousal), but this is often not observed in practice. We investigated whether concordance would be greater when social threat is higher. A sample of 46 socially anxious participants underwent experiences involving varying degrees of social interaction and evaluative threat. Affect, cognitions, behaviors, and physiological responses were assessed repeatedly. We used a network modeling approach to examine the associations among emotion response components that are typically associated with trait social anxiety. After estimating contemporaneous partial-𝜏 networks for each condition, we identified the optimal modularity statistic with absolute thresholding. Permutation testing was used to investigate hypotheses tied to absolute and relative concordance. Concordance was defined as a lack of community structure as measured by a non-significant modularity statistic, indicating a unidimensional anxiety response. Contrary to hypotheses, absolute concordance was not observed in any of the conditions involving social-evaluative threat but was observed in the non-social control network. Additionally, no significant differences in relative concordance emerged when comparing explicit evaluation vs. non-explicit evaluation or social vs. non-social networks. Our findings align with the extant literature suggesting that concordance is not a necessary or common feature of emotional episodes and have implications for our theoretical understanding of social anxiety. Future work should explore individual differences in concordance and interactions among components across different timescales, as well as the replicability of our findings in larger, more diverse samples.

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“…As cognitive models of social anxiety (Clark & Wells, 1995) would predict, for those with relatively weaker cognitive control, stronger threat bias correlated with higher self-reported anxiety across multiple measures. However, among those with relatively stronger cognitive control, weaker threat bias was associated with higher anxiety, suggesting ''these individuals may be able to override the (normally involuntary) processing of taskirrelevant threat information to the extent that they are more anxious'' (Gorlin & Teachman, 2015), perhaps to the point of unhealthy avoidant processing (see also Gorlin & Teachman, 2015, for related findings examining observer-rated anxious behavior). In sum, it appears that the presence of a strong threat bias alone does not necessarily produce greater anxiety symptoms for anxious younger adults.…”

Section: Cognitive Domain: Cognitive Control Vs Uniformly Positivementioning

confidence: 99%

When the “Golden Years” turn blue

Green

Magee

Steiner

et al. 2016

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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Current treatments for disorders of emotion, like pathological anxiety, are often less effective in older adults than in younger adults and have poorly understood mechanisms, pointing to the need for psychopathology models that better account for age-related changes in normative emotional functioning and the expression of disordered emotion. This article describes ways in which the healthy aging and emotion literature can enhance understanding and treatment of symptoms of anxiety and depression in later life. We offer recommendations for how to integrate the healthy aging literatures' theories and findings with psychopathology research and clinical practice, and highlight opportunities for future research.

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Threat Interference Biases Predict Socially Anxious Behavior: The Role of Inhibitory Control and Minute of Stressor

Cited by 11 publications

References 59 publications

Predicting negative affect variability and spontaneous emotion regulation: Can working memory span tasks estimate emotion regulatory capacity?

Predicting negative affect variability and spontaneous emotion regulation: Can working memory span tasks estimate emotion regulatory capacity?

Social anxiety and concordance in emotional responses across levels of evaluative threat

When the “Golden Years” turn blue

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