Fear of negative evaluation biases social evaluation inference: evidence from a probabilistic learning task.

BACKGROUND:Fear of negative evaluation (FNE) defines social anxiety yet the process of inferring social evaluation, and its potential role in maintaining social anxiety, is poorly understood. We developed an instrumental learning task to model social evaluation learning, predicting that FNE would sp...

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Main Authors: Katherine S Button, Daphne Kounali, Lexine Stapinski, Ronald M Rapee, Glyn Lewis, Marcus R Munafò
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4390305?pdf=render