非临床社交焦虑者对害羞表情的加工特点

The Processing Characteristics of Shy Expression in Non-clinical Social Anxious People

将被试分为高社交焦虑组和低社交焦虑组,通过3个系列实验考察非临床社交焦虑者对害羞表情的加工特点.实验1通过启动范式,以害羞和中性表情为启动刺激,要求被试判断中性几何图形的情绪类型;实验2、3分别要求被试对害羞和中性表情做情绪类型判断和喜好度评定.结果发现,在非注意加工和注意加工情况下,被试均倾向于将“害羞”判断为“积极”表情;相对于中性表情,被试给予“害羞”表情更高的喜好度评分.上述结果在高、低社交焦虑者中没有显著差异.这表明,在中国文化背景下,个体倾向于认为“害羞”表情是偏积极的,这一偏向与其社交焦虑水平无关.

This study examined the processing characteristics of shy expression in non-clinical social anxious people.In the three experiments,the participants were divided into two groups:the high social anxiety group and the low social anxiety group.Experiment 1 adopted the priming paradigm,with the shy and neutral faces as the primes and the neural geometric figures as the targets.The participants were asked to judge the emotional category of the neutral targets.Experiments 2 and 3 required the participants to judge the emotional classification and the degree of preference of the shy and neutral expressions,respectively.It was found that,in both of the non-attentional and attentional conditions,the participants tended to judge the shy expressions as being more positive than the neural expressions.Furthermore,the participants rated the shy expressions with higher score of preference compared with the neutral expressions.These results did not differ significantly between the high and low social anxiety groups.The present findings indicated that in the context of Chinese culture,people tended to regard shy expressions as positive,regardless of the social anxiety level.