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SUBMITTER: Beltzer ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7451209 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beltzer Miranda L ML Adams Stephen S Beling Peter A PA Teachman Bethany A BA
Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science 20190920 6
Adaptive social behavior requires learning probabilities of social reward and punishment, and updating these probabilities when they change. Given prior research on aberrant reinforcement learning in affective disorders, this study examines how social anxiety affects probabilistic social reinforcement learning and dynamic updating of learned probabilities in a volatile environment. N=222 online participants completed questionnaires and a computerized ball-catching game with changing probabilitie ...[more]