Journal
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Volume 117, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2020.106668
Keywords
Interpretation training; Feedback; Negativity bias; Emotion recognition; Evaluation bias; Loneliness
Funding
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea [NRF-2017M3C7A1041823, NRF-2020R1A2C2007193]
- Ministry of Education, South Korea [NRF-2017R1D1A1A09000664]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2017M3C7A1041823] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The study found that promotion training can reduce the association between loneliness and recognition of anger and fear, while increasing the likelihood of positive evaluation towards surprise expressions. This positive evaluation bias towards surprise faces is strengthened in lonely participants with greater promotion learning.
Loneliness is a growing public health problem. Lonely individuals show a characteristic negative bias in the cognitive processing of socioemotional information. In the current study, we tested the effects of a novel computerized feedback-based interpretation training on socioemotional information processing. Lonely and non-lonely participants were assigned equally to training groups. During interpretation training, the promotion training group learned to associate subthreshold fearful and neutral expressions with socially more favorable labels than less favorable ones. The control training group learned to associate the same facial expressions with socially less favorable labels. After training, participants performed three socioemotional tasks. Results revealed that promotion training reduced associations between loneliness and recognition of anger and fear in lonely participants. In addition, compared to control training, promotion training significantly increased the likelihood of evaluating surprise expressions as positive rather than negative. This positive evaluation bias toward surprise faces increased in lonely participants with greater promotion learning. However, only non-lonely participants showed increased willingness to approach an unfamiliar female face after promotion training relative to control training. Despite this limitation, the findings demonstrate the potential of our novel feedback-based interpretation training in mitigating characteristic processing of socioemotional information among lonely people.
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