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14-09-2015 | Original Article

Anxious but Thoroughly Informed? No Jumping-to-Conclusions Bias in Social Anxiety Disorder

Auteurs: Björn Schlier, Sylvia Helbig-Lang, Tania Marie Lincoln

Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Uitgave 1/2016

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Abstract

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is maintained by biased information processing, which might involve hasty decision making. This study tested whether SAD is associated with jumping-to-conclusions in neutral and socially threatening situations. Sixty participants with SAD and 56 healthy controls completed a beads-task and a Social Beads-Task (SBT) with neutral, threat-relevant, and self-relevant situations. Dependent variables were draws to decision (DTD) and certainty about the decision. In the beads-task, participants with SAD showed more DTD than controls. In the SBT, all participants drew fewer beads in threat- and self-relevant situations than in neutral scenarios. Participants with SAD reported higher certainty regarding their decision in the beads-task and in the threat- and self-relevant scenarios of the SBT. Jumping-to-conclusions increases when decision making is framed in a threatening or social-evaluative context. SAD may be linked to more certainty about decisions, but findings on group differences require further investigation.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Anxious but Thoroughly Informed? No Jumping-to-Conclusions Bias in Social Anxiety Disorder
Auteurs
Björn Schlier
Sylvia Helbig-Lang
Tania Marie Lincoln
Publicatiedatum
14-09-2015
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Cognitive Therapy and Research / Uitgave 1/2016
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-015-9724-2