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Identity and expression memory for happy and angry faces in social anxiety
D'Argembeau, Arnaud; Van der Linden, Martial; Etienne, Anne-Marie et al.
2003In Acta Psychologica, 114 (1), p. 1-15
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Keywords :
social anxiety; memory; face perception; facial expressions
Abstract :
[en] We examined the influence of social anxiety on memory for both identity and emotional expressions of unfamiliar faces. Participants high and low in social anxiety were presented with happy and angry faces and were later asked to recognise the same faces displaying a neutral expression. They also had to remember what the initial expressions of the faces had been. Remember/know/guess judgements were asked both for identity and expression memory. For participants low in social anxiety, both identity and expression memory were more often associated with "remember" responses when the faces were previously seen with a happy rather than an angry expression. In contrast, the initial expression of the faces did not affect either identity or expression memory for participants high in social anxiety. We interpreted these findings by arguing that most people tend to preferentially elaborate positive rather than negative social stimuli that are important to the self and that this tendency may be reduced in high socially anxious individuals because of the negative meaning they tend to ascribe to positive social information. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
D'Argembeau, Arnaud  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychopathologie cognitive
Van der Linden, Martial ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychopathologie cognitive
Etienne, Anne-Marie  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de personne et société > Psychologie de la santé
Comblain, Christine
Language :
English
Title :
Identity and expression memory for happy and angry faces in social anxiety
Publication date :
September 2003
Journal title :
Acta Psychologica
ISSN :
0001-6918
eISSN :
1873-6297
Publisher :
Elsevier Science Bv, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Volume :
114
Issue :
1
Pages :
1-15
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Commentary :
The original publication is available at www.elsevier.com
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