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What you don’t know, can’t hurt you: The differential effect of masked versus non-masked counterconditioning and mere exposure to spider pictures on women’s affective evaluation of spiders Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Irina Masselman, Klaske A. Glashouwer, Peter J. de Jong
Exposure therapy is the treatment of choice for specific phobias but prolonged exposure to feared stimuli is strenuous and may lead to treatment dropout. Previous research showed that repeated exposure to masked spiders was effective in reducing psychophysiological and behavioural fear responses, but appeared ineffective in changing subjective feelings towards spiders. This study investigated in an
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Association between interpretation flexibility and emotional health in an anxious sample: The challenge of measuring flexible adoption of multiple perspectives Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Julie L. Ji, Elske Salemink, Bethany A. Teachman
Interpreting ambiguous situations in a rigidly negative manner contributes to emotional disorders. Although negative interpretation biases have been well studied in relation to anxiety and depression, the relationship between interpretation flexibility (vs. rigidity) and emotional health remains understudied. The present study is a secondary analysis to test the hypothesis that higher interpretation
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Researching Shame, Dissociation, and Their Relationship Using Latent Change Modeling Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Patricia Kulla, Tina Braun, Tim Reichenberger, Joachim Kruse
Shame and dissociation play pivotal roles in the pathogenesis and treatment of (complex) post-traumatic stress disorder. However, the causal relationship between these two symptoms remains unclear....
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Does evaluating oneself cause evaluations of others while observing a social interaction? An experimental investigation of the cognitive and emotional consequences following a false-feedback task Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Ryan J Ferguson, Allison J Ouimet
IntroductionDespite decades of research on how people with social anxiety evaluate themselves and others, it remains unclear whether people who evaluate themselves negatively also evaluate others n...
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The pupil as a window to the mind’s eye: Greater emotionality of episodic imagery than verbal visualisation of rewarding activities Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Andreas Bär, Hannah E. Bär, Max Schneider, Fritz Renner
Episodic imagery has been shown to amplify emotion more than abstract verbal representations. This may prove useful for clinical interventions aiming to motivate adaptive behaviours. However, most ...
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The relationship between depressive symptoms and positive emotional anticipation of goal achievement Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Rachel J. Anderson, J. Helgi Clayton McClure, Jennifer Boland, David Howe, Kevin J. Riggs, Stephen A. Dewhurst
Depression is associated with difficulties in goal pursuit which could be related to deficits in emotional anticipation regarding goal success. Therefore, the reported study investigated emotional ...
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Exploratory study of threat sensitivity as a moderator of positive affect treatment and negative affect treatment for depression and anxiety Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Nora M. Barnes-Horowitz, Aileen Echiverri-Cohen, Julian Ruiz, Tomislav D. Zbozinek, Rebecca Kim, Michael Treanor, David Rosenfield, Thomas Ritz, Alicia M. Meuret, Michelle G. Craske
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on decreasing negative affect rather than increasing positive affect and is ineffective for some individuals. A trial comparing novel Positive Affect Trea...
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Process-based therapy: A personalized approach to treatment Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Danielle M Moskow, Clarissa W Ong, Steven C Hayes, Stefan G Hofmann
Historically, evidence-based treatment has followed the latent disease model, which emphasizes using specific protocols tied to diagnoses. Today, the field continues to move towards an individual a...
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Out of control: The role of spider movement and intolerance of uncertainty in spider fear Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Markus Grill, Anke Haberkamp
When asking spider-phobic individuals what they find most frightening about spiders, many report spiders’ unique movement characteristics. Here, we experimentally tested whether spider-specific mov...
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Points of contact between network psychometrics and experimental psychopathology Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Richard J. McNally
Experimental psychology has long embodied the quest to identify the causes of psychopathology. This venerable tradition has been joined in this quest by network theory, a novel approach to conceptu...
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The moderating role of interpersonal problems on baseline emotional intensity and emotional reactivity in individuals with borderline personality disorder and healthy controls Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Alyssa A. Di Bartolomeo, Sonya Varma, Lindsay Fulham, Skye Fitzpatrick
Emotion dysregulation, including higher baseline emotional intensity and emotional reactivity (i.e., increased magnitude of change in emotional responding) is theoretically central to Borderline Pe...
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A Dynamic-Maturational Framework for the Study of Psychosis and Attachment Theory Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Alexander H. Jack, Stephanie Wilson
Attachment theory has been used to explain the origin of psychotic phenomena. In this article we critically evaluate dominant models and assessment measures of attachment in the study of psychosis....
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Inhibitory Learning versus Habituation in an Experimental Exposure Intervention for People With Heightened Health Anxiety: Increase of Distress Tolerance as a Joint Mechanism of Change? Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Karoline S. Sauer, Michael Witthöft
The Inhibitory Learning Theory (ILT; Craske et al., 2008) changed the focus of exposure-based treatment from erasing excitatory associations and fear reduction (habituation (HA)) to reinforcing inh...
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Reducing the return of avoidance and fear by directly targeting avoidance: Comparing incentive-based and instructed extinction of avoidance to passive fear extinction Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Andre Pittig, Alex H. K. Wong
Enhancing the reduction of avoidance may optimize treatment for anxiety disorders. Past research focused on boosting fear extinction to reduce avoidance, however, with limited success. Directly ext...
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The forgotten affective route of social cognition in patients with bipolar disorders Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Ulises Ríos, Marcelo Arancibia, Juan Pablo Jiménez, Felix Bermpohl
Social cognition (SC) research in bipolar disorders (BD) has provided evidence about deficits in different phases of the illness. Most of the studies have focused on two aspects of SC: theory of mi...
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Anxiety, fear extinction, and threat-related amygdala reactivity in children exposed to urban trauma Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-10-15 John M. France, Mariam Reda, Hilary A. Marusak, Manessa Riser, Charis N. Wiltshire, William M. Davie, Lana Ruvolo Grasser, Cassandra P. Wanna, Anaïs F. Stenson, Timothy D. Ely, Seth D. Norrholm, Jennifer S. Stevens, Tanja Jovanovic
IntroductionChildhood trauma is strongly associated with fear-related psychopathology, like anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Atypical fear extinction and neural responses to social...
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Inducing Paranoia is Linked to Increased Resting Amygdala Cerebral Blood Flow in Healthy Individuals Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Amy Pinkham, Emily Bass, Hans Klein, Cassi Springfield, Jerillyn Kent, Sina Aslan
Among individuals with schizophrenia, paranoia has been linked to increased resting cerebral blood flow (CBF) in amygdala, suggesting that amygdala hyperactivity may be a mechanism for paranoid ide...
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Impact of interpretation bias on depression in ambiguous situations: A panel survey with a three-month interval Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Asuka Sugita, Shimpei Yoshimura
The negative interpretation of ambiguous situations is understood as interpretation bias, which is a core factor that causes and prolongs depression. However, not many studies have examined the cau...
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The world dangerous it is—The scrambled sentences task in the context of posttraumatic stress symptoms Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Felix Würtz, Simon E Blackwell, Jürgen Margraf, Marcella L Woud
The Scrambled Sentences Task (SST) is a robust measure of interpretational processes in psychopathology. However, there is little evidence of its utility in measuring dysfunctional appraisals (DAs)...
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Latent profile analysis of schizotypy, autistic traits and conspiracy theory beliefs: Associations with cognitive flexibility and scientific reasoning performance Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-09-03 Neophytos Georgiou, Paul Delfabbro, Ryan Balzan
Schizotypal and autistic traits have both been implicated in the development of conspiracy theory (CT) beliefs. However, there are both similarities and differences between these traits that may in...
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social Communication Predictors in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Theoretical Review Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Cristina Costescu, Delia Pitariu, Carmen David, Adrian Rosan
social communication represents one of the main areas of impairment in the case of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (APA, 2013). Several studies have investigated predictors in this ...
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Intolerance of uncertainty predicts altered threat expectancy ratings during reinstatement Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Daniel V Zuj, Simon Dymond, Stuart B Murray, Shaima Thomas, Jayne Morriss
Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is a transdiagnostic risk factor for psychiatric disorders, and plays an important role in fear and threat learning under uncertainty. The ‘reinstatement of fear/thr...
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Identifying characteristics of non-completers in fear conditioning paradigms with children and adolescents Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Tabea Flasinski, Katharina Sommer, Silvia Schneider, Jürgen Margraf, Verena Pflug, Michael W Lippert, Hanna Christiansen, Jan C Cwik, Alfons O Hamm, Tina In-Albon, Susanne Knappe, Paul Pauli, Jan Richter, Brunna Tuschen-Caffier, Dirk Adolph
The number of studies on fear conditioning in children and adolescents has increased in recent years. Most of these studies exclusively focus on data of completers while dropout rates, reasons for ...
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Starting fear is a stronger predictor of long-term fear than rate of change in fear in human fear conditioning Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Tomislav D. Zbozinek, Alexandra S. Tanner, Michelle G. Craske
In rodent studies, faster extinction rate has been shown to predict less long-term fear. However, this has scarcely been studied in humans. The present report investigated the association between e...
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Maladaptive perfectionists are more impulsive than adaptive perfectionists in a monetary gambling task Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Leyla Karami Isheqlou, Mostafa Zarean, Mohammad Taghi Saeedi, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Soomaayeh Heysieattalab
Perfectionism is a personality disposition usually defined considering the demands toward performance outcomes. Maladaptive perfectionists have more concerns over getting adverse performance outcom...
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Executive attention control impairments and social anxiety symptoms in children Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Marie Louise Reinholdt-Dunne, Andreas Blicher, Mike Rinck, Anke Klein
Impairments in executive attention control, such as the ability to inhibit processing task-irrelevant information, are believed to play a key role in the development and maintenance of social fear ...
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Perfectionism, life stress, and suicidal ideation among college students: A protective role of self-compassion Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Sukkyung You, Minkyung Kwon, Eui Kyung Kim
Suicidal behavior among South Korean young adults has been a serious social concern. When college students have a maladaptive desire for perfectionism in life, they may experience more significant ...
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Investigation of early night sleep effects on subsequent fear extinction learning and recall Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Edith Friesen, M. Roxanne Sopp, Alexandra H. Brueckner, Diana Ferreira de Sá, Tanja Michael
Extinction learning is considered an important underlying process of successful treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, sleep disturbances may impede this learning process: Current accounts postulate that sleep facilitates encoding by promoting neural plasticity during slow wave sleep (SWS). Based on this hypothesis, we tested whether early night sleep, with high amounts of SWS
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Subjective and Objective Measures of Activity in Depressed and Non-depressed Individuals in Everyday Life Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Johannes Michalak, Helen Niemeyer, Wolfgang Tschacher, Nico Baumann, Xiao Chi Zhang, Dirk Adolph
Reduced physical activity is considered a key feature of major depressive disorder (MDD). However, research directly comparing non-depressed controls and patients yielded mixed findings. In contrast to most previous research, this study compared objective as well as subjective activity levels of individuals with MDD with non-depressed controls and used an ambulatory assessment method. Moreover, we
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What’s not to like? Enhancing women’s body satisfaction by means of an evaluative conditioning procedure with positive social feedback Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Irina Masselman, Peter J de Jong, Klaske A Glashouwer
The prevalence of a negative body image among women is high. Because of its serious consequences for individuals’ mental health, there is an urgent need to improve current body image interventions. Recent studies using evaluative conditioning to strengthen the association between women’s body and positive (social) stimuli have shown promising results. In two experimental studies, we tested whether
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Making the leap: From experimental psychopathology to clinical trials Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Simon E Blackwell, Marcella L Woud
One important aim of experimental psychopathology research is to inform development of new interventions derived from basic science. However, testing whether a newly developed intervention is in fact effective requires moving from experimental studies to clinical trials, and this transition can pose many problems. These problems stem not only from the inherent complexity of even the simplest clinical
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Striatal gray matter volumes, externalizing traits, and N-back task performance: An exploratory study of sex differences using the human connectome project data Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Yu Chen, Chiang-Shan R Li
The striatum is implicated in externalizing traits and cognitive dysfunction. The ventral and dorsal striatal subregions may play differentiable roles in externalizing behaviors and executive functions. We employed voxel-based morphometry to estimate the striatal gray matter volumes (GMVs) of 968 young adults (510 women) of the Human Connectome Project. We examined sex differences in striatal GMVs
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An investigation of the concurrent and longitudinal associations between narrative coherence and mental health mediated by social support Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Lauranne Vanaken, Patricia Bijttebier, Robyn Fivush, Dirk Hermans
The coherence of autobiographical narratives is thought to be reflective of individuals’ psychological adjustment. However, results are not always replicable, the longitudinal nature of the relation has remained largely unaddressed, and there is limited research on mechanisms that may explain the relation between coherence and mental health. Therefore, in a large longitudinal study, we investigated
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Social comparison modulates acute responses to traumatic footage and the development of intrusive memories Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Thomas Meyer, Nexhmedin Morina
The psychosocial environment is pivotal for the adjustment to traumatic experiences, yet the role of social cognition in the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains obscure. We theorize that comparison with other trauma survivors reporting high or low levels of stress-related symptomatology might attenuate or amplify the development of PTSD, depending on perceived similarities
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Averting Repulsion? Body-Directed Self-Disgust and Autobiographical Memory Retrieval Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Paula von Spreckelsen, Ineke Wessel, Klaske A. Glashouwer, Peter J. de Jong
A negative body image and appraisals of disgust with one’s (physical) self reflect schematic representations of one’s body, which we classified under the term repulsive body image (RBI). We propose that an RBI biases autobiographical memory processing towards schema (=RBI)-congruent and over-general memories. Women with high (HRBI; n = 61) and low (LRBI; n = 64) levels of habitual body-directed self-disgust
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Does alexithymia, independent of depressive and anxiety disorders, correlate with the severity of somatic manifestations among patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms? Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Ahmed Rady, Roa Alamrawy, Ismail Ramadan, Mervat Abd El Raouf
Background: Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are highly prevalent, frequently co-occurring with psychiatric symptoms such as depression, alexithymia, and anxiety. Objective: To evaluate the relation between depression, anxiety, and alexithymia and severity of somatic symptoms in patients with MUPS. Method: This is a cross-sectional study conducted on 196 patients suffering from MUPS.
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The interplay among paranoia, social relationships and negative affectivity in a heterogeneous clinical sample: A network analysis Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Jakub Januška, Alexandra Straková, Daniel Dančík, Ján Pečeňák, Anton Heretik, Michal Hajdúk
Previous evidence suggests paranoia affects people’s functioning in interpersonal relationships. However, less is known about the interconnections among specific aspects of paranoia and domains of social relationships. The goal of the current study was to explore the interplay among different aspects of paranoia, social relationships and negative affectivity (depression, anxiety and social anxiety)
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Cognitive, behavioural and familial maintenance mechanisms in childhood obsessive compulsive disorders: A systematic review Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Chloe Chessell, Brynjar Halldorsson, Kate Harvey, Carolina Guzman-Holst, Cathy Creswell
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for preadolescent children with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is typically derived from adult cognitive behavioural models of OCD; however, it is unknown whether these adult models apply to preadolescent children. This systematic review examined whether 11 cognitive, behavioural and familial maintenance mechanisms identified from adult cognitive behavioural
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Addicted to Self-esteem: Understanding the neurochemistry of narcissism by using cocaine as a pharmacological model Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Alina Kastner-Bosek, Irena Dajic, Nace Mikus, Ana Weidenauer, Matthäus Willeit
There are pronounced behavioural and neuroimaging parallels between cocaine abuse and narcissism. Although the observed commonalities are not specific to cocaine as opposed to other types of addiction, we argue that the relatively constrained molecular actions of cocaine and, more importantly, the covariance of narcissism-like behaviours with cocaine use build a strong case for taking the known effects
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The role of cognitive and affective flexibility in individual differences in the experience of experimentally induced heat pain Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2021-05-27 Astrid Meesters, Linda M. G. Vancleef, Madelon L. Peters
Adaptation to the context in which we experience pain requires cognitive flexibility (CF) and affective flexibility (AF). Deficits in both flexibility types may be precursors of more intense and prolonged pain. This study aimed to examine the relation between CF and AF, and the experience of experimentally induced pain. Furthermore, correlations between behavioral and self-report measures of flexibility
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Rumination as a mechanism of the association between interpretation bias and depression symptoms: A longitudinal investigation Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2021-05-12 Blair E. Wisco, David R. Harp
Depression is a common problem with debilitating effects. Both negative interpretation biases and rumination are related to depression, but how these factors interact to produce depression is unclear. Prior cross-sectional research indicates that negative interpretation biases have an indirect effect on depression symptoms through rumination, but to date, no longitudinal studies have examined this
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A preliminary comparison of fundamental fears related to anxiety Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Inka Papenfuss, Brian D. Ostafin
In the quest to uncover lower order processes that underlie anxiety disorders, researchers have proposed a number of fundamental fears, which are thought to represent fears of inherently aversive stimuli that can explain a number of higher order constructs such as more specific fears. In a recent theoretical article, Carleton narrowed the list of potential fundamental fears down to three candidates:
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Assessing distress tolerance using a modified version of the Emotional Image Tolerance task Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Ashley Slabbert, Penelope Hasking, Lies Notebaert, Mark Boyes
The Emotional Image Tolerance (EIT) task assesses tolerance of negative emotion induced by negatively valenced images. We made several minor modifications to the task (Study 1) and adapted the task to include positive and neutral images in order to assess whether individuals respond to the valence or the intensity of the image content (Study 2). In both studies, we assessed subjective distress, gender
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Can you believe it? Examining the influence of safety behavior beliefs on speech task outcomes Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Jessica S. Tutino, Allison J. Ouimet
Beliefs and expectations about treatment have been shown to significantly impact treatment outcomes in medical settings. However, researchers have seldom examined the role of beliefs within the context of cognitive behavioral therapy. Beliefs may be particularly salient for safety behavior (SB) use in exposure therapy, as clinicians often hold opinions about whether judicious SB use facilitates or
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Visual avoidance of faces in socially anxious individuals: The moderating effect of type of social situation Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2021-03-21 Jiemiao Chen, Esther van den Bos, Sara L.M. Velthuizen, P. Michiel Westenberg
Patients with social anxiety disorder appear to display aberrant gaze behavior across a variety of social situations. In contrast, the gaze behavior of high socially anxious (HSA) individuals from the community seems to depend on the type of situation and the aberration might be limited to gaze avoidance. This study investigated the differential effect of social situation—a face-viewing task and a
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The link between anxiety and assessment of body attitudes and body size estimation in anorexia nervosa Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Birgit Hasenack, Lot Sternheim, Jojanneke Bijsterbosch, Anouk Keizer
Although body size estimation (BSE) tasks are frequently used to investigate distorted body representation in anorexia nervosa (AN), the link between anxiety and task performance has been overlooked. To investigate this, 30 female healthy controls (HCs) and 29 female AN patients completed two body attitude questionnaires and three BSE tasks (the Visual Estimation Task, the Tactile Estimation Task and
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The somatosensory system in anorexia nervosa: A scoping review Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2021-02-18 Max Teaford, Matthew S. McMurray, Vincent Billock, Madison Filipkowski, L. James Smart, Jr
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by a number of symptoms including food restriction and body perception distortions. In the present scoping review, we outline the current literature on sensory submodalities related to the somatosensory system in AN including affective touch, haptic perception, interoception, nociception, proprioception, and tactile perception as
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Inducing moral elevation in veterans with PTSD: An experimental investigation using a mixed methods approach Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Adam P. McGuire, Joseph Mignogna
Moral elevation is a positive emotion described as feeling inspired by others’ virtuous actions. Elevation has several psychosocial benefits, some of which may be relevant to trauma-related distress; however, past studies have primarily examined elevation in nonclinical, civilian populations or in naturalistic studies. This experimental study used mixed methods to assess if veterans with post-traumatic
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An experimental test of the habit-goal framework: Depressive rumination is associated with heightened habitual characteristics of negative thinking but not habit-directed behavior control Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Kristján Helgi Hjartarson, Ivar Snorrason, Ágústa Friðriksdóttir, Brynja B. Þórsdóttir, Nína B. Arnarsdóttir, Ragnar P. Ólafsson
Habitual thinking may underpin a heightened disposition to engage in rumination in response to negative mood, a widely held notion that has rarely been directly tested. The purpose of the current study was to investigate whether rumination is associated with habitual attributes and whether it is related to an imbalance in habit relative to goal-directed behavior control. University students (N=115)
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Validation of the Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale with female Hebrew-speaking students Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Yosi Yaffe
The Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale (CIPS) is a measure widely used to assess individuals’ self-perceptions of intellectual and professional fraudulence. The study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Hebrew form for the CIPS (HCIPS) in female Hebrew-speaking students, in an attempt to further clarify its structure and strengthen its validity in international settings. The study
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Differentiating the roles of intolerance of uncertainty and negative beliefs about worry across emotional disorders Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Alexander M. Penney, Geoffrey S. Rachor, Kendall A. Deleurme
Background: Researchers have examined intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and negative beliefs about worry (NBW) in emotional disorders. However, the distinct relationships of IU and NBW remain unclear. We examined IU and NBW across emotional disorders, controlling for overlapping symptoms. We also explored prospective and inhibitory IU. Methods: A sample of 565 undergraduates completed measures of IU
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Engagement and disengagement components of attentional bias to emotional stimuli in anxiety and depression Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2020-09-29 Andreas Blicher, Marie Louise Reinholdt-Dunne, Morten Hvenegaard, Clas Winding, Anders Petersen, Signe Vangkilde
Previous research shows that attentional bias is associated with emotional difficulties. The aim of the present study was to investigate the engagement and disengagement components of attentional bias to emotional stimuli in anxiety and depression using the attentional assessment task. The experimental groups consisted of 54 clinical participants in treatment for anxiety or depression and 54 control
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Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer in subclinical obsessive–compulsive disorder Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2020-07-22 Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos, Iris M. Engelhard
Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) refers to the effect of stimuli that have been associated with a pleasant or aversive event on instrumental behaviors. Given that obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is linked to excessive compulsions, which in the laboratory can be tested via testing instrumental responses, we assessed PIT effects in individuals with subclinical levels of OCD. Participants
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It’s not over yet: The impact of worry on emotional recovery Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Jayne Morriss, Nicolò Biagi, Carien M. van Reekum
Emotional reactivity and recovery are crucial for maintaining well-being. It remains unknown, however, to what extent emotion modulates the time course of recovery assessed using a simple categorization task and how this varies based on individual differences in worry. To address these questions, 35 participants viewed emotional pictures, followed by abstract greeble targets, which were to be categorized
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Positive imagery cognitive bias modification for symptoms of depression among university students in Pakistan: A pilot study Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Akhtar Bibi, Jürgen Margraf, Simon E. Blackwell
Depression is highly prevalent among university students in Pakistan, but treatment provision is inadequate. Computerized interventions may provide one means of overcoming treatment barriers. The present study piloted a computerized cognitive training paradigm involving repeated generation of positive mental imagery, imagery cognitive bias modification (imagery CBM), as a potential brief intervention
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Latent structure, measurement invariance, and reliability of an Arabic version of the Short Health Anxiety Inventory Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2020-04-07 Ahmad Kassab Alshayea
The Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI) is a well-established, self-report measure of health anxiety (HA). However, no psychometrically adequate Arabic-speaking version of this measure is yet available. This study was therefore designed to provide an Arabic version of the SHAI and assess its latent structure, measurement invariance across gender, and internal consistency reliability. Forty hundred
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Effects of rumination on unwanted intrusive thoughts: A replication and extension Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2020-03-26 Martin Kollárik, Marcel van den Hout, Carlotta V. Heinzel, Patrizia D. Hofer, Roselind Lieb, Karina Wahl
Studies indicate that rumination might play a role in obsessive–compulsive disorder. In a previous experimental study, rumination about an unwanted intrusive thought (UIT) maintained the urge to neutralize this thought. We sought to replicate and extend these findings with measures of behavioral and mental neutralizing. Additionally, we investigated possible mechanisms that might be involved in the
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The effects of eye movements and alternative dual tasks on the vividness and emotionality of negative autobiographical memories: A meta-analysis of laboratory studies Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Sanne T. L. Houben, Henry Otgaar, Jeffrey Roelofs, Harald Merckelbach, Peter Muris
Performing eye movements during memory retrieval is considered to be important for the therapeutic effect of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). We conducted a meta-analysis of laboratory studies that compared the effects of eye movements and/or alternative dual tasks (e.g., counting) on the vividness and emotionality of negative autobiographical memories with recall only (control)
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Social anxiety compared to depression better accounts for enhanced acquisition of self-reported anxiety toward faces paired with negative evaluation in a conditioning task Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2020-02-19 Klint Fung, Lynn E. Alden
Previous studies have shown that social anxiety was associated with enhanced acquisition of anxiety as measured by subjective ratings in conditioning tasks using faces as the conditioned stimulus and negative evaluation as the unconditioned stimulus. However, a recent study failed to replicate the effect. The current study re-examined the enhanced acquisition effect with a larger sample, explored whether
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Influence of maternal ethnic–racial identity on children’s internalizing symptom trajectories Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (IF 2.718) Pub Date : 2020-01-26 Vanja Lazarevic, Geneva Toledo, Jillian Lee Wiggins
We investigate the impact of maternal ethnic–racial identity on child internalizing trajectories in immigrant and U.S.-born Latinx families. Data from N=1,076 Latinx mothers’ reports at child ages 1, 3, 5, and 9 years were used. For children of U.S.-born mothers, but not immigrant mothers, greater levels of maternal ethnic–racial identity were associated with lower levels of internalizing symptoms