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{"title":"Evaluating the effects of a brief motivational interviewing protocol on excessive acquisition","authors":"Shiu F. Wong ,&nbsp;Emily Dewar ,&nbsp;Peter A. Baldwin ,&nbsp;Jessica R. Grisham","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101790","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101790","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and Objectives</h3><p>Individuals with hoarding disorder<span>, especially those with problems around acquiring, typically demonstrate a lack of motivation and awareness of their problematic behaviours. Since acquiring behaviours are important targets in interventions for hoarding, effective strategies for increasing motivation in this population are required to enhance the acceptability and efficacy of these interventions.</span></p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>The aim of the current study was to evaluate the ability of a brief online motivational intervention to reduce acquiring in a community sample of high acquirers (<em>N</em> = 159). Participants were randomly assigned to either a motivational interviewing protocol (<em>n</em><span> = 73) or progressive muscle relaxation control condition (</span><em>n</em><span> = 86). Readiness to change and motivation to acquire was measured via self-report, and acquiring behaviour was measured using a modified version of the Preston Acquisition Decision Making Task (to increase ecological validity).</span></p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>In both conditions, participants’ readiness and motivation to change increased over time. Contrary to hypotheses, the magnitude of this improvement did not significantly differ between conditions. Furthermore, conditions did not perform differently on the behavioural measure of acquiring.</p></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><p>Insufficient dose of the intervention may have precluded any differences being observed between conditions.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Results underscore the need to better address the problem of lowered motivation in this population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101790"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9550912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Judging others makes me forget: Assessing the cognitive, behavioural, and emotional consequences of other-evaluations on self-evaluations for social anxiety","authors":"Ryan J. Ferguson,&nbsp;Allison J. Ouimet,&nbsp;Olivia Gardam","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101763","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101763","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><p>People with Social Anxiety Disorder<span> (SAD) evaluate themselves negatively before, during, and after anxiety-provoking social situations, which leads to negative consequences (e.g., performance deficits, memory impairments, and post-event processing). Despite decades of research, little is known regarding whether these evaluations generalize to how they view others. Social projection theory—the belief that others are similar to oneself—might further extend the basic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) model. Our aim was to understand whether the degree to which people negatively evaluate a visibly anxious person causes them to negatively evaluate themselves.</span></p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>172 unselected participants completed several baseline questionnaires. We then randomly assigned participants to provide high-, medium-, or no-evaluation of a videotaped anxious person (i.e., other-evaluations) while we assessed their state anxiety. After, they evaluated the anxious person on multiple criteria. Participants then participated in an impromptu conversation task and subsequently evaluated their own performance.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Although our manipulation was effective, we found no emotional or behavioural differences between conditions. However, people in the high-evaluation condition recalled significantly fewer facts about their conversation partner than did people in the medium- and no-evaluation conditions.</p></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><p>After data cleaning, the sample size was slightly smaller than planned; most analyses were nonetheless appropriately powered. Our findings may not generalize beyond unselected undergraduate students; replication in a clinical sample is warranted.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>These findings highlight the cognitive consequences (i.e., memory impairments) of other-evaluations, which cognitive behavioural therapists should consider when treating individuals with SAD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101763"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9550913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The importance of importance revisited: A special issue in honour of former Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Editor-in-Chief, Adam S. Radomsky","authors":"Andrea R. Ashbaugh,&nbsp;Allison J. Ouimet","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101828","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101828","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101828"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9550914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A retrospective study of negative and positive post-event processing following stressful and pleasant social interactions","authors":"Leanne Kane,&nbsp;Olivia Simioni,&nbsp;Andrea R. Ashbaugh","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101795","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101795","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><p>Negative post-event processing (PEP) is a key maintenance factor of social anxiety, but little is known about the role positive PEP, particularly in relation to situations that are not perceived as stressful. The objective was to examine negative and positive PEP following stressful and pleasant social interactions. We were also interested in how participants remembered and described the interactions.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Young adults (<em>n</em> = 411) recalled a recent pleasant or stressful social interaction and indicated how much negative and positive PEP they engaged in since the interaction. They also completed questionnaires measuring social anxiety and the memory's phenomenological qualities and wrote a description of the interaction.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Higher social anxiety was linked with more negative and less positive PEP, regardless of whether the interaction was perceived as stressful or pleasant. Participants reporting more negative PEP used more negative words in describing the interaction and their memory was more negative and emotionally intense. Those reporting more positive PEP used more positive and less negative words in their descriptions. For stressful interactions, positive PEP was related to a more positive memory; for pleasant ones, it was related to increased emotional intensity.</p></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><p>Limitations included the sample type (restricted age range, non-clinical) and the retrospective, cross-sectional nature of the study.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Results provide insight into PEP following stressful and pleasant social interactions. We also found preliminary evidence that positive PEP may be helpful and protective. Future studies may benefit from longitudinal and mixed methods designs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101795"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9550911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The relevance of dysfunctional reasoning to OCD and its treatment: Further evidence for inferential confusion utilizing a new task-based measure","authors":"Louis-Philippe Baraby ,&nbsp;Lysandre Bourguignon ,&nbsp;Frederick Aardema","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101728","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101728","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><p>Previous research has highlighted the role of dysfunctional reasoning processes (i.e. “inferential confusion”) in the development and maintenance of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Inferential confusion has previously been found to be a unique predictor of OC symptoms and has shown specificity for OCD. However, these findings have primarily relied on a single self-report questionnaire, and only a limited number of experimentations have been conducted to establish the specificity of inferential confusion to OCD with alternate measures. The current paper demonstrates the relationship of inferential confusion with OCD symptoms in clinical samples by using a task-based measure of inferential confusion.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Sixty-four OCD participants, as well as thirty anxious and thirty-four healthy controls completed the recently developed Dysfunctional Reasoning Processes Task (DRPT) and related measures. Thirty-five OCD participants then completed sixteen sessions of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and completed the same measures post-treatment.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>As predicted, dysfunctional reasoning was significantly more elevated for those with OCD relative to control groups. Reduced levels of dysfunctional reasoning during CBT were significantly associated with successful treatment outcome.</p></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><p>Clinical implications should be interpreted with caution due to the relatively small sample size.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Our findings support the notion that inferential confusion is an important cognitive factor particularly relevant to OCD that needs to be directly addressed as a mechanism of change in CBT.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101728"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9544663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Dedication by Dr. Stanley Jack Rachman","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101829","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101829","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101829"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9895314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Let's play pretend: Towards effective modelling in experimental psycho(patho)logy","authors":"Yannick Boddez ,&nbsp;Sara Scheveneels ,&nbsp;Pieter Van Dessel","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101809","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101809","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><p>Models are omnipresent in science. We introduce a novel framework to achieve more effective modelling practices in general psychology and experimental psychopathology.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>We analyze three types of models that are common in psychology: laboratory models, computational models, and cognitive models. We then evaluate two common ways to assess the translational value of models (phenomenological similarity and deep similarity) as well as an arguably underappreciated way (functional similarity). Functional similarity is based on an assessment of whether variables (e.g., the administration of a pharmacological substance) have a similar effect (a) in the model (e.g., in a fear conditioning procedure) and (b) on the real-life target phenomenon (e.g., on real-life anxiety complaints).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>We argue that the assessment of functional similarity is a powerful tool to assess the translational value of models in the field of experimental psychopathology and beyond.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101809"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9544664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining social reinforcement learning in social anxiety","authors":"Miranda L. Beltzer ,&nbsp;Katharine E. Daniel ,&nbsp;Alexander R. Daros ,&nbsp;Bethany A. Teachman","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101810","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101810","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><p><span>Reinforcement learning biases have been empirically linked to anhedonia in depression and theoretically linked to social anhedonia in </span>social anxiety disorder, but little work has directly assessed how socially anxious individuals learn from social reward and punishment.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p><em>N</em> = 157 individuals high and low in social anxiety symptoms completed a social probabilistic selection task that involved selecting between pairs of neutral faces with varying probabilities of changing to a happy or angry face. Computational modeling was performed to estimate learning rates. Accuracy in choosing the more rewarding face was also analyzed.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>No significant group differences were found for learning rates. Contrary to hypotheses, participants high in social anxiety showed impaired punishment learning accuracy; they were more accurate at choosing the most rewarding face than they were at avoiding the most punishing face, and their punishment learning accuracy was lower than that of participants low in social anxiety. Secondary analyses found that high (vs. low) social anxiety participants were less accurate at selecting the more rewarding face on more (vs. less) punishing face pairs.</p></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><p>Stimuli were static, White, facial images, which lack important social cues (e.g., movement, sound) and diversity, and participants were largely non-Hispanic, White undergraduates, whose social reinforcement learning may differ from individuals at different developmental stages and those holding more marginalized identities.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Socially anxious individuals may be less accurate at learning to avoid social punishment, which may maintain negative beliefs through an interpersonal stress generation process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101810"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10227359/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9550909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining reciprocal relations between disgust proneness and OCD symptoms: A four-wave longitudinal study","authors":"Bunmi O. Olatunji ,&nbsp;Jingu Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2023.101907","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2023.101907","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><p>Although disgust proneness has been implicated in the development of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), available studies have largely employed cross-sectional designs and the prospective and potentially reciprocal association between disgust proneness and OCD symptoms remains unclear. The present study employs cross lagged panel analysis to examine the prospective and reciprocal association between disgust proneness and OCD symptoms.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>A community sample of adults (<em>N</em> = 307) completed symptom measures of disgust proneness and OCD symptoms at four time points with 1 month intervals.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The results showed that the cross-lagged paths from disgust proneness to OCD symptoms were significant (average <em>β =</em> 0.07, <em>p'</em>s &lt; 0.001) when controlling for depression. However, the paths from total OCD symptoms to disgust proneness were not significant. In contrast, the cross-lagged paths from disgust proneness to washing OCD symptoms were not significant. However, the paths from washing OCD symptoms to disgust proneness were significant (average <em>β =</em> 0.05, <em>p'</em>s &lt; 0.01) when controlling for depression.</p></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><p>The study is limited is limited by exclusive reliance on self-report in a nonclinical sample.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The findings offer preliminary evidence suggesting that disgust proneness may be a cause and consequence of OCD depending on the nature of the symptoms. Thus, the longitudinal relation between disgust proneness and OCD may be transactional where one influences the effect of the other.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 101907"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10193364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effectiveness of cognitive behavioral group therapy, psychodrama, and their integration for treatment of social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial","authors":"Hanieh Abeditehrani ,&nbsp;Corine Dijk ,&nbsp;Mohsen Dehghani Neyshabouri ,&nbsp;Arnoud Arntz","doi":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2023.101908","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbtep.2023.101908","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><p>Although cognitive behavioral group therapy (CBGT) is an effective treatment for social anxiety disorder, many socially anxious patients are still symptomatic after treatment. A possible improvement for CBGT could come from the more experiential group psychotherapy, psychodrama (PD). The integration of CBGT and PD (labeled CBPT) might offer an even more effective treatment than CBGT or PD alone. With the present study, we investigated first whether three kinds of group therapy (CBGT, PD, and CBPT) are superior to a waitlist (WL). Second, we investigated whether CBPT is more effective than CBGT or PD alone.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>One hundred and forty-four social anxiety patients were randomly assigned to three active conditions or a WL. After wait, WL-participants were randomized over the active treatment conditions.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The results of a multilevel analysis showed that all treatments were superior to WL in reducing social anxiety complaints. Only CBGT and CBPT differed significantly from WL in reducing fear of negative evaluations. There were no significant differences between active conditions in any of the variables after treatment and after six-month follow up, neither were there significant differences in treatment dropout.</p></div><div><h3>Limitations</h3><p>First there is the lack of a long-term follow-up. Second, because of loss of participants, we did not reach the planned numbers in the active treatment groups in comparison to WL. Moreover, this study was not designed as a non-inferiority or equivalence trial.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Although the integrative CBPT showed good results, it was not more effective than the other treatments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48198,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 101908"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005791623000757/pdfft?md5=504ad94a50c22aff687e0e4b461f265f&pid=1-s2.0-S0005791623000757-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10193362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}