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KMID : 0981220090090020087
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2009 Volume.9 No. 2 p.87 ~ p.107
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Cognitive bias and sensitivity in identification of facial emotions associated with social anxiety
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Yang Jae-Won
Oh Kyung-Ja
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between sensitivity in recognizing emotional facial expressions and social anxiety symptoms. Using facial expressions of anger, fear, happiness, sadness, and neutral emotions, 50 morphed faces were created, changing 2% steps from a neutral state to the full-blown expressions of emotion. In the ascending task, like Joormann and Gotlib’s study (2006), still photographs of facial expressions gradually proceeding from neutral to extreme emotions were presented and the intensity of emotion which the participants recognized the expressed emotion was recorded. In the descending task, the same sets of still photographs were presented in the reverse order and the participants responded when disappearance of the emotion was noticed. Correlational analyses revealed that the level of social anxiety was significantly correlated with the emotional intensity of happy in the descending task, indicating that socially anxious individuals reported the disappearance of happy emotion earlier than those with low social anxiety. In addition, social anxiety scores were positively correlated with emotion identification errors, suggesting that socially anxious individuals might have difficulty with recognition of facial emotions. These results suggest that information processing in facial emotion might be biased in social anxiety.
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KEYWORD
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social anxiety, facial emotion, cognitive bias
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