Generalized Social Phobia and social judgments: the salience of self- and partner-information.
Individuals with Generalized Social Phobia (GSP, N = 25) and community controls (N = 26) participated in a social interaction task. They then rated how well they had performed in the situation and assigned weights and valences to the different types of information they used to arrive at this judgment. The GSP group weighed anxiety-related self-information more heavily than did the Control group. In contrast, their conversational partners weighed verbal behavior more heavily. These findings are generally supportive of cognitive models of social phobia and point to the negative interpersonal implications of relying on different social information than others.
Alden
Lynn E
LE
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4. lalden@cortex.psych.ubc.ca
Mellings
Tanna M B
TM
D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014705:Verbal Behavior