TY - JOUR
T1 - Recognition and evaluation of emotional prosody in individuals with generalized social phobia
T2 - A pilot study
AU - Quadflieg, Susanne
AU - Wendt, Beate
AU - Mohr, Alexander
AU - Miltner, Wolfgang H R
AU - Straube, Thomas
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - Studies using facial emotional expressions as stimuli partially support the assumption of biased processing of social signals in social phobia. This pilot study explored for the first time whether individuals with social phobia display a processing bias towards emotional prosody. Fifteen individuals with generalized social phobia and fifteen healthy controls (HC) matched for gender, age, and education completed a recognition test consisting of meaningless utterances spoken in a neutral, angry, sad, fearful, disgusted or happy tone of voice. Participants also evaluated the stimuli with regard to valence and arousal. While these ratings did not differ significantly between groups, analysis of the recognition test revealed enhanced identification of sad and fearful voices and decreased identification of happy voices in individuals with social phobia compared with HC. The two groups did not differ in their processing of neutral, disgust, and anger prosody.
AB - Studies using facial emotional expressions as stimuli partially support the assumption of biased processing of social signals in social phobia. This pilot study explored for the first time whether individuals with social phobia display a processing bias towards emotional prosody. Fifteen individuals with generalized social phobia and fifteen healthy controls (HC) matched for gender, age, and education completed a recognition test consisting of meaningless utterances spoken in a neutral, angry, sad, fearful, disgusted or happy tone of voice. Participants also evaluated the stimuli with regard to valence and arousal. While these ratings did not differ significantly between groups, analysis of the recognition test revealed enhanced identification of sad and fearful voices and decreased identification of happy voices in individuals with social phobia compared with HC. The two groups did not differ in their processing of neutral, disgust, and anger prosody.
KW - Emotional facial expressions
KW - Emotional prosody
KW - Information-processing bias
KW - Social phobia
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=35548956368&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.brat.2007.08.003
DO - 10.1016/j.brat.2007.08.003
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
C2 - 17880917
AN - SCOPUS:35548956368
VL - 45
SP - 3096
EP - 3103
JO - Behaviour Research and Therapy
JF - Behaviour Research and Therapy
SN - 0005-7967
IS - 12
ER -