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The malfunction of domain-specific attentional process in social anxiety: attentional process of social and non-social stimuli

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ABSTRACT Socially anxious people have a malfunction in attentional systems. However, it is uncertain whether the malfunction of the attentional system is a domain-specific process to social stimuli or a… Click to show full abstract

ABSTRACT Socially anxious people have a malfunction in attentional systems. However, it is uncertain whether the malfunction of the attentional system is a domain-specific process to social stimuli or a domain-general process to non-social stimuli. Therefore, we investigated the effects of social anxiety on the domain specificity of the attentional process using a spatial Stroop paradigm. We conducted two identical experiments with a total of 153 university students including men and women (61 students in Experiment 1 and 92 students in Experiment 2), in which the levels of social anxiety were assessed using specific instruments. The results showed that social anxiety scores were negatively correlated with the reversed spatial Stroop effect for social stimuli, but not for non-social stimuli (Experiment 1). The findings of the first experiment were successfully replicated in Experiment 2. Our results suggested that the malfunction of the attentional system is a domain-specific process to socially threatening stimuli in socially anxious individuals.

Keywords: social stimuli; process; attentional process; process social; social anxiety

Journal Title: Cognition and Emotion
Year Published: 2021

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