Anxious but Thoroughly Informed? No Jumping-to-Conclusions Bias in Social Anxiety Disorder.

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Title:	Anxious but Thoroughly Informed? No Jumping-to-Conclusions Bias in Social Anxiety Disorder.
Authors:	Schlier, Björn, Helbig-Lang, Sylvia, Lincoln, Tania
Source:	Cognitive Therapy & Research. Feb2016, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p46-56. 11p.
Subjects:	Anxiety disorders, Medical decision making, Task performance, Self-evaluation, Human information processing
Abstract:	Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is maintained by biased information processing, which might involve hasty decision making. This study tested whether SAD is associated with jumping-to-conclusions in neutral and socially threatening situations. Sixty participants with SAD and 56 healthy controls completed a beads-task and a Social Beads-Task (SBT) with neutral, threat-relevant, and self-relevant situations. Dependent variables were draws to decision (DTD) and certainty about the decision. In the beads-task, participants with SAD showed more DTD than controls. In the SBT, all participants drew fewer beads in threat- and self-relevant situations than in neutral scenarios. Participants with SAD reported higher certainty regarding their decision in the beads-task and in the threat- and self-relevant scenarios of the SBT. Jumping-to-conclusions increases when decision making is framed in a threatening or social-evaluative context. SAD may be linked to more certainty about decisions, but findings on group differences require further investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:	Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is maintained by biased information processing, which might involve hasty decision making. This study tested whether SAD is associated with jumping-to-conclusions in neutral and socially threatening situations. Sixty participants with SAD and 56 healthy controls completed a beads-task and a Social Beads-Task (SBT) with neutral, threat-relevant, and self-relevant situations. Dependent variables were draws to decision (DTD) and certainty about the decision. In the beads-task, participants with SAD showed more DTD than controls. In the SBT, all participants drew fewer beads in threat- and self-relevant situations than in neutral scenarios. Participants with SAD reported higher certainty regarding their decision in the beads-task and in the threat- and self-relevant scenarios of the SBT. Jumping-to-conclusions increases when decision making is framed in a threatening or social-evaluative context. SAD may be linked to more certainty about decisions, but findings on group differences require further investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:	01475916
DOI:	10.1007/s10608-015-9724-2