A preliminary characterization of the psychometric properties and generalizability of a novel social approach-avoidance paradigm

IF 1.7 3区 心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Travis C. Evans, Josie Carlson, Agnieszka Zuberer, Regan Fry, Sam Agnoli, Jennifer C. Britton, Joseph DeGutis, Michael Esterman
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Social behaviors are guided in part by motivational and emotional responses to affective facial expressions. In daily life, facial expressions communicate varying degrees social reward signals (happiness), social threat signals (anger), or social reward-threat conflict signals (co-occurring happiness and anger). Thus, motivational and emotional responses must be sensitive to variations in social signal intensity to effectively guide social behavior. We recently developed a novel social approach-avoidance paradigm (SAAP), which uses morphed facial expressions to assess sensitivity to linear increases in social reward and/or social threat intensity. Prior to large-scale studies validating the test quality of the SAAP, however, it is necessary to first establish the psychometric properties and generalizability of these sensitivity metrics. In Study 1, we independently replicated SAAP task effects and demonstrated that motivational and emotional sensitivity measures exhibit strong psychometric properties and robust individual variability. In Study 2, we demonstrated that more complex social judgements (e.g., trustworthiness) are also sensitive to linear increases in social signal intensity, which differs across judgements. Although future research in larger samples will be needed to establish the test quality of the SAAP, these preliminary findings suggest that the SAAP exhibits adequate psychometric properties to justify this type of large-scale individual differences research.

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新型社交接近-回避范式的心理计量特性和可推广性的初步描述
社会行为在一定程度上是由对情感性面部表情的动机和情绪反应所引导的。在日常生活中,面部表情会传达不同程度的社会奖励信号(快乐)、社会威胁信号(愤怒)或社会奖励-威胁冲突信号(快乐和愤怒并存)。因此,动机和情绪反应必须对社会信号强度的变化保持敏感,才能有效地指导社会行为。我们最近开发了一种新的社交接近-回避范式(SAAP),它使用变形的面部表情来评估对社交奖赏和/或社交威胁强度线性增加的敏感性。然而,在对 SAAP 的测试质量进行大规模研究验证之前,有必要首先确定这些敏感度指标的心理测量特性和可推广性。在研究 1 中,我们独立地复制了 SAAP 的任务效应,并证明动机和情绪敏感度测量具有很强的心理测量特性和稳健的个体变异性。在研究 2 中,我们证明了更复杂的社交判断(如可信度)对社交信号强度的线性增加也很敏感,这在不同的判断中是不同的。尽管未来还需要对更大样本进行研究,以确定 SAAP 的测试质量,但这些初步研究结果表明,SAAP 具有足够的心理测量特性,足以支持此类大规模个体差异研究。
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5.40
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期刊介绍: Motivation and Emotion publishes articles on human motivational and emotional phenomena that make theoretical advances by linking empirical findings to underlying processes. Submissions should focus on key problems in motivation and emotion, and, if using non-human participants, should contribute to theories concerning human behavior.  Articles should be explanatory rather than merely descriptive, providing the data necessary to understand the origins of motivation and emotion, to explicate why, how, and under what conditions motivational and emotional states change, and to document that these processes are important to human functioning.A range of methodological approaches are welcome, with methodological rigor as the key criterion.  Manuscripts that rely exclusively on self-report data are appropriate, but published articles tend to be those that rely on objective measures (e.g., behavioral observations, psychophysiological responses, reaction times, brain activity, and performance or achievement indicators) either singly or combination with self-report data.The journal generally does not publish scale development and validation articles.  However, it is open to articles that focus on the post-validation contribution that a new measure can make.  Scale development and validation work therefore may be submitted if it is used as a necessary prerequisite to follow-up studies that demonstrate the importance of the new scale in making a theoretical advance.
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