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Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

ISSN: 0005-7916

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  • Data for: Look at me: The relation between empathy and fixation on the emotional eye-region in low vs. high social anxiety
    Original data collected from 28 valid subjects.
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  • Data for: Behavioral tendencies when socially anxious individuals expect to be (dis)liked: the role of self-disclosure and mimicry in the development of likeability
    Abstract Background and Objectives: This study aimed to unravel the relationship between socially anxious individuals’ expectation of being (dis)liked and actual likeability by looking at the mediation role of social behavior. Both more strategic self-disclosure and more automatic mimicry were examined. Method: Female participants (N=91) with various levels of social anxiety participated in a social task with a confederate. Before the task, participants rated their expectation of being liked by the confederate. Different sets of video-observers rated the likeability of the participants before and after the social task and their level of self-disclosure and mimicry. Results: Social anxiety was negatively related to the expectation to be liked. Social anxiety did not relate to observer ratings of likeability, self-disclosure and mimicry but social anxiety did moderate the relation between expectations and self-disclosure. As expected participants with low levels of social anxiety disclosed more if they expected to be liked. However, the reversed was found for the high socially anxious participants, a higher expectation of being liked related to less self-disclosure. Limitations: The study used an analogue female sample. Our social task was highly structured and does not represent informal day-to-day social interaction. Conclusion: Socially anxious individuals function rather well in highly structured social tasks. No support was found for likeability problems or disrupted mimicry. Nevertheless, high socially anxious individuals did have a cognitive bias and show a self-protective strategy: when expecting a neutral judgment they reduce their level of self-disclosure. This pattern probably adds to their feelings of social disconnectedness.
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  • Data for: Medically unexplained symptoms in children and adolescents: Illness-related self-concept and parental symptom evaluations
    Final data set for MUS in children and adolescents
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  • Data for: Jumping to conclusions in the less-delusion-prone? Preliminary evidence from a more reliable beads task
    Data set for distractor beads task and PDI.
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  • Data for: It's the End of the Smile as We Know it: Social Anxiety and the Interpretation of Morphed Facial Expressions Following Exclusion and Inclusion
    study 1- First, we excluded participants with abnormally fast reaction times (less than 3 standard deviation below average; n = 12) and with unconscientious response patterns (i.e., did not respond appropriately to a test video included in the task; n = 18). Thus, the final sample consisted of 147 participants (76 women, mean age = 35, SD = 10.23). Next, we divided the participants into two groups based on their SA scores. Individuals in the LSA groups were those whose LSAS score was less than 30 and whose SPIN score was less than 10 (n = 40, 17 women). The HSA group included participants with LSAS scores above 60 and SPIN score above 30 (n = 39, 26 women) (for SA cut-off in LSAS and SPIN see Rytwinski et al., 2008; Masia-Warner et al., 2003). Means of SPIN and LSAS scores in the LSA group were 3.3 (SD = 3.40) and 13.0 (SD = 9.60) respectively. Means of SPIN and LSAS scores in the HSA group were 42.1 (SD = 10.33) and 87.3 (SD = 13.74) respectively. Thus, the HSA group included individuals with SA levels equivalent to those seen in treatment-seeking population (Rytwinski et al., 2008; Ranta et al., 2007; Heurer et al., 2010). Our main analyses were based on 2 (Group: HSA vs. LSA) X 2 (Condition: Exclusion vs. Inclusion) between-subject ANOVAs on the mean (across all 6 clips) recognition of transition times study 2- Our data analytic strategy was conceptually identical to our strategy in Study 1. First, twenty-one participants were excluded from the experiment due to an extremely fast reaction times to the video clips (responses that were faster than 3 standard deviation below group average). Forty participants failed to perform the task in a conscientious manner. These criteria resulted in a final sample of 198 participants (107 women, mean age: 35 SD= 11.58). Next, participants were divided into HSA (n = 44, 27 women) and LSA (n = 47, 23 women) using the same criteria. Means of SPIN and LSAS in the LSAs group were 3.00 (SD = 2.52) and 14.40 (SD = 8.56) respectively. Means of SPIN and LSAS in the HSA group were 40.60 (SD = 10.21) and 80.50 (SD = 14.00) respectively. Again, the HSA group contained individuals with SA levels equivalent to the levels of individuals seeking treatment for their SA difficulties.
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  • Data for: It's the End of the Smile as We Know it: Social Anxiety and the Interpretation of Morphed Facial Expressions Following Exclusion and Inclusion
    row data of all the particpants
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  • Data for: Niacin Biological Challenge: A Paradigm to Evaluate Social Concerns
    These data were used to compare participants receiving niacin compared to a placebo in a test of a biological correlate of anxiety sensitivity social concerns.
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  • Data for: When Do Psychosocial Explanations of Psychiatric Problems Increase Stigma? Self-Report and Implicit Evidence
    Background and Objectives: Biomedical explanations of psychiatric problems, compared to psychosocial explanations, may amplify psychiatric stigma. One limitation of existing research is the measurement of almost exclusively self-reported stigma. This study evaluated the stigma-related effects of biomedical versus psychosocial explanations of schizophrenia using conventional self-report and two other measurement approaches that may tap more deeply held attitudes. Methods: One hundred three undergraduates listened to a vignette describing a man with (1) schizophrenia of biomedical origin, (2) schizophrenia of psychosocial origin, or (3) diabetes. They then completed an Implicit Association Test, conventional self-report stigma measures, and projected other measures that captured perceptions of most other people’s likely impressions. Results: Participants were more likely to attribute stigmatizing views to others compared to themselves. The projected other measurement, but not the conventional self-report measurement, predicted implicit attitudes. We obtained no evidence that the psychosocial causal explanation of schizophrenia led to decreased stigma compared to the biomedical causal explanation. In fact, the psychosocial causal explanation increased stereotyped attitudes. Limitations: The absence of a schizophrenia control group complicates interpretation of biomedical versus psychosocial group comparisons. Conclusions: Psychosocial causal explanations that portray people as subject to numerous, severe stressors may evoke the cultural stereotype of the “ticking time bomb” from whom others seek safe distance.
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  • Data for: Dual-tasking during mental imagery of negative memories or during visual perception of images: Effects on future recall
    Data for: Dual-tasking during mental imagery of negative memories or during visual perception of images: Effects on future recall
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