Social anxiety biases the evaluation of facial displays: Evidence from single face and multi-facial stimuli

Céline Douilliez; Vincent Yzerbyt; Eva Gilboa-Schechtman; Pierre Philippot

doi:10.1080/02699931.2011.632494

Social anxiety biases the evaluation of facial displays: Evidence from single face and multi-facial stimuli

Céline Douilliez
, Vincent Yzerbyt
, Eva Gilboa-Schechtman
, Pierre Philippot

Department of Psychology

Université de Lille
Université catholique de Louvain

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Abstract

This study examined the contribution of social anxiety to the evaluation of emotional facial stimuli, while controlling for the gender of participants and stimuli. Participants (n=63) completed two tasks: a single face evaluation task in which they had to evaluate angry versus neutral faces and, a facial crowd evaluation task in which they had to evaluate displays with a varying number of neutral and angry faces. In each task, participants had to evaluate the stimuli with respect to (a) the degree of disapproval expressed by the single face/crowd, and (b) the perceived difficulty of interacting with the face/crowd (emotional cost). Consistent with earlier studies, results showed that social anxiety modulated the evaluation of single faces for emotional cost, but not for disapproval ratings. In contrast, the evaluation of facial crowds was modulated by social anxiety on both ratings.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1107-1115
Number of pages	9
Journal	Cognition and Emotion
Volume	26
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2011.632494
State	Published - Sep 2012

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Correspondence should be addressed to: Céline Douilliez, Univ Lille-Nord de France-UDL3, UFR de Psychologie, Laboratoire PSITEC, Domaine universitaire Pont du Bois, BP 60149·59 650 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France. E-mail: [email protected] The research was supported in part by a grant from Joint Research Action (ARC 06/11·337) awarded to the second and fourth authors and in another part by a grant from the University Lille-Nord de France (BQR 2007). The authors thank Nathalie Lefèvre and Céline Bugli for their statistical support and Laure Seurin and Vincent Sézibera for their help in collecting the data.

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Correspondence should be addressed to: Céline Douilliez, Univ Lille-Nord de France-UDL3, UFR de Psychologie, Laboratoire PSITEC, Domaine universitaire Pont du Bois, BP 60149·59 650 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France. E-mail: [email protected] The research was supported in part by a grant from Joint Research Action (ARC 06/11·337) awarded to the second and fourth authors and in another part by a grant from the University Lille-Nord de France (BQR 2007). The authors thank Nathalie Lefèvre and Céline Bugli for their statistical support and Laure Seurin and Vincent Sézibera for their help in collecting the data.

Funders	Funder number
Joint Research Action
University Lille-Nord de France	BQR 2007
Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer	06/11·337

Keywords

Emotional facial expression
Evaluation bias
Interpretation bias
Social anxiety

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