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- Title
Conditioned Subjective Responses to Socially Relevant Stimuli in Social Anxiety Disorder and Subclinical Social Anxiety.
- Authors
Tinoco‐González, Daniella; Fullana, Miquel Angel; Torrents‐Rodas, David; Bonillo, Albert; Vervliet, Bram; Pailhez, Guillem; Farré, Magí; Andión, Oscar; Perez, Víctor; Torrubia, Rafael
- Abstract
Although enhanced fear conditioning has been implicated in the origins of social anxiety disorder (SAD), laboratory evidence in support of this association is limited. Using a paradigm employing socially relevant unconditioned stimuli, we conducted two separate studies to asses fear conditioning in individuals with SAD and non-clinical individuals with high social anxiety (subclinical social anxiety [SSA]). They were compared with age-matched and gender-matched individuals with another anxiety disorder (panic disorder with agoraphobia) and healthy controls (Study 1) and with individuals with low social anxiety (Study 2). Contrary to our expectations, in both studies, self-report measures (ratings of anxiety, unpleasantness and arousal to the conditioned stimuli) of fear conditioning failed to discriminate between SAD or SSA and the other participant groups. Our results suggest that enhanced fear conditioning does not play a major role in pathological social anxiety. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Key Practitioner Message We used a social conditioning paradigm to study fear conditioning in clinical and subclinical social anxiety., We found no evidence of enhanced fear conditioning in social anxiety individuals., Enhanced fear conditioning may not be a hallmark of pathological social anxiety.
- Subjects
CHI-squared test; PAIRED comparisons (Mathematics); PANIC disorders; RESEARCH funding; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SOCIAL anxiety; CONTROL groups; ONE-way analysis of variance
- Publication
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 2015, Vol 22, Issue 3, p221
- ISSN
1063-3995
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cpp.1883