Social Anxiety and Its Effects on Performance and Perception
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Stimulus Preparation
Fifty-six men participated in this phase; for purposes of comparability of results with two related studies Cowan 1993, Cowan, Conger, & Conger 1989, only men were included. The goal for preparation of stimuli was to obtain six videotaped interviews representing a range of social competence. To this end, participants were asked to sign informed consent forms and a release allowing use of their videotape in a later part of the study. Three attractive female research assistants (rated by
Results
Due to the importance of judge ratings in the various analyses, it was deemed essential to determine to what degree judges’ ratings might be representative of those of other undergraduates. To evaluate this, preliminary analyses were conducted based on the assumptions of generalizability theory (Cronbach, Gleser, Nanda, & Rajaratnam, 1972). The equation for calculating the generalizability coefficient G, representing how these results might be expected to generalize over any six judges (j),
Discussion
The basic hypotheses addressed in this study related to the effects of social anxiety on performance, the effects of social anxiety on perception, and the effects of competence on perception. These and the related issue of midlevel rating dimensions are addressed next.
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