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    Zabag R, Gilboa-Schechtman E, Levy-Gigi E.
    Behav Res Ther. 2022 10;157:104159.
    Social anxiety (SA) was associated with biases in the updating of self-related information. Whether and under which conditions such biases emerge with respect to other-related information remains under-explored. In a pre-registered study, online participants (n = 590) were randomly assigned to one of two structurally identical reversal-learning tasks with social (faces) or non-social (shapes) stimuli. In the initial phase of this task, stimulus-outcome associations were learned by trial and error. Next, in the updating phase of the task, these associations were modified. SA was associated with reduced negative-to-positive updating and enhanced positive-tonegative updating of social, but not non-social, information. The results extend previous studies suggesting that SA is associated not only with biased updating of selfrelated information but also with biased updating of other-related information. This bias is specific to social information and may contribute, along with other information processing biases, to the maintenance of SA.
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doi:10.1016/j.brat.2022.104159