Anxiety and Error Monitoring: Increased Error Sensitivity or Altered Expectations?

Autor/inn/en	Compton, Rebecca J.; Carp, Joshua; Chaddock, Laura; Fineman, Stephanie L.; Quandt, Lorna C.; Ratliff, Jeffrey B.
Titel	Anxiety and Error Monitoring: Increased Error Sensitivity or Altered Expectations?
Quelle	In: Brain and Cognition, 64 (2007) 3, S.247-256 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-2626
DOI	10.1016/j.bandc.2007.03.006
Schlagwörter	Cues; Anxiety; Nonverbal Communication; Physiology; Measures (Individuals); Evaluation Methods; Error Patterns; Responses + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Angst; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Physiologie; Messdaten; Fehlertyp
Abstract	This study tested the prediction that the error-related negativity (ERN), a physiological measure of error monitoring, would be enhanced in anxious individuals, particularly in conditions with threatening cues. Participants made gender judgments about faces whose expressions were either happy, angry, or neutral. Replicating prior studies, midline scalp negativities were greater following errors than following correct responses. In addition, state anxiety interacted with facial expression to predict ERN amplitudes. Counter to predictions, participants high in state anxiety displayed smaller ERNs for angry-face blocks and larger ERNs for happy-face blocks, compared to less anxious participants. These results are inconsistent with the simple notion that anxiety enhances error sensitivity globally. Rather, we interpret the findings within an expectancy violation framework, in which anxious participants have altered expectations for success and failure in the context of happy and angry facial cues, with greater ERN amplitudes when expectations are violated. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10