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Negative self-imagery blocks inferences.

C R Hirsch1, A Mathews, D M Clark

  • 1Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 77, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK. c.hirsch@iop.kcl.ac.uk

Behaviour Research and Therapy
|October 30, 2003
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Social anxiety may stem from negative self-imagery, hindering threat interpretation. Training low-anxious individuals in negative self-imagery eliminated their non-threatening inference bias and increased anxiety.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Anxiety Research

Background:

  • Individuals with social phobia struggle to make non-threatening inferences from ambiguous social cues.
  • Negative self-imagery is common in social phobia and may impede non-threatening inference generation.
  • This study investigates if inducing negative self-imagery in non-anxious individuals affects their inferential bias.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test if training non-anxious individuals to adopt a negative self-image removes their typical non-threatening inferential bias.
  • To examine the impact of manipulated self-imagery on inference generation in social situations.
  • To assess changes in state anxiety following negative self-imagery training.

Main Methods:

  • Low-anxious volunteers were assigned to either negative image training or a control condition.

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  • Participants read descriptions of job interviews, performing lexical decisions after ambiguous or unambiguous text.
  • Inferential bias was assessed by analyzing decisions made after ambiguous social information.

    • Main Results:

    • Control participants showed the expected non-threatening inferential bias.
    • Participants trained in negative self-imagery lacked the non-threatening inferential bias.
    • Negative image training led to increased state anxiety in low-anxious volunteers.

    Conclusions:

    • Negative self-imagery appears to disrupt the ability to generate non-threatening inferences in social situations.
    • Manipulating self-imagery can alter inferential biases in non-anxious individuals.
    • Inducing negative self-imagery may be a mechanism contributing to heightened anxiety in social contexts.