The effect of state anxiety on jumping-to-conclusions bias in social anxiety: An experimental and computational modelling study

IF 4.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Behaviour Research and Therapy Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2025.104859

Nicole Tan , Yiyun Shou , Junwen Chen , Bruce K. Christensen

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Abstract

Research indicates that the tendency to make hasty decisions based on minimal information, also known as the Jumping-to-Conclusions bias, may be linked to social anxiety and could be exacerbated under high state anxiety, but this relationship is inconclusive due to a lack of consistent findings. The present study applied a Bayesian computational modelling approach alongside frequentist hypothesis testing to investigate the relationships between trait and state social anxiety and the Jumping-to-Conclusions bias across various beads tasks. An online experimental study involving 131 participants experiencing subclinical social anxiety revealed that higher trait social anxiety significantly attenuated one's belief updating in neutral situations when exposed to a state social anxiety induction. Conversely, higher trait social anxiety significantly increased belief updating about one's social performance, but this depended on the state social anxiety induction. No significant associations were found between trait and state social anxiety and observed dependent variables measured in the beads tasks. The implications are explored.

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状态焦虑对社交焦虑中跳脱结论偏见的影响：一项实验和计算模型研究

研究表明，基于极少信息仓促做出决定的倾向，也被称为“草率下结论偏见”，可能与社交焦虑有关，并且在高度焦虑状态下可能会加剧，但由于缺乏一致的研究结果，这种关系尚无定论。本研究采用贝叶斯计算建模方法和频率假设检验来研究特质和状态社交焦虑以及在各种珠子任务中直接得出结论的偏见之间的关系。一项涉及131名经历亚临床社交焦虑的参与者的在线实验研究表明，当暴露于状态社交焦虑诱导时，高特质社交焦虑显著减弱了一个人在中性情境下的信念更新。相反，高特质社交焦虑显著提高了个体对社会绩效的信念更新，但这取决于状态社交焦虑的诱导。在珠子任务中，特质和状态社会焦虑和观察到的因变量之间没有发现显著的关联。本文对其影响进行了探讨。

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Behaviour Research and Therapy PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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7.50

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7.30%

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148

期刊介绍： The major focus of Behaviour Research and Therapy is an experimental psychopathology approach to understanding emotional and behavioral disorders and their prevention and treatment, using cognitive, behavioral, and psychophysiological (including neural) methods and models. This includes laboratory-based experimental studies with healthy, at risk and subclinical individuals that inform clinical application as well as studies with clinically severe samples. The following types of submissions are encouraged: theoretical reviews of mechanisms that contribute to psychopathology and that offer new treatment targets; tests of novel, mechanistically focused psychological interventions, especially ones that include theory-driven or experimentally-derived predictors, moderators and mediators; and innovations in dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices into clinical practice in psychology and associated fields, especially those that target underlying mechanisms or focus on novel approaches to treatment delivery. In addition to traditional psychological disorders, the scope of the journal includes behavioural medicine (e.g., chronic pain). The journal will not consider manuscripts dealing primarily with measurement, psychometric analyses, and personality assessment.