Inducing an interpretation bias changes self-imagery: A preliminary investigation
Inducing an interpretation bias changes self-imagery: A preliminary investigation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.brat.2006.11.001
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发表时间：
2007-09-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Clark, David M.
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作者：
Hirsch, Colette R.;Mathews, Andrew;Clark, David M.
先前的研究表明，自我意象的变化会影响人们对社会情境的情感解读。当前的实验研究了匡威的可能性：诱导推理偏差可以改变自我相关图像的内容。通过让参与者报告在随后的模糊社会情境体验中产生的自我形象，测试了重复练习对获得消极或积极社会结果的影响。参与者和独立的法官认为参与者的自我形象的内容是更消极的，在之前的实践中，在访问消极而不是积极的社会成果。此外，练习访问负面结果的参与者将他们在想象的压力社交情境中的预期焦虑评定为更大，并且他们的预期社交表现比积极结果组的参与者更差。在进行评分时，各组的状态焦虑水平没有差异，因此，不太可能将组间观察到的任何差异归因于情绪效应。我们认为，这一发现是一致的假设，推理偏见和内容的自我形象可以相互作用，并可能共同维持社会焦虑。(c)2006爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
Prior work suggests that variations in self-imagery can influence the emotional interpretations people make about: social situations. The current experiment investigated the converse possibility: that inducing an inferential bias can change the content of self-related images. The effects of repeated practice in accessing either negative or positive social outcomes was tested by having participants report on self-images generated during subsequent experience with ambiguous social situations. Participants and independent judges rated the content of participants' self-images as being more negative after prior practice in accessing negative rather than positive social outcomes. Furthermore, participants who practiced accessing negative outcomes rated their anticipated anxiety in an imagined stressful social situation as being greater, and their expected social performance as poorer than participants in the positive outcome group. Groups did not differ in state anxiety levels when making their ratings, so it is unlikely that any observed differences between groups can be attributed to mood effects. We suggest that this finding is consistent with the hypothesis that inferential biases and content of self-images can interact with each other and may together serve to maintain social anxiety. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.