김상희 교수님의 새 연구 “Modification of socioemotional processing in loneliness through feedback-based interpretation training”가 'Experimental Psychology'분야 IF 상위 10% 이내 저널(IF: 6.829, 90개 저널 중 3위)인 Computers in Human Behavior에 게재되었습니다.
Title:
Modification of Socioemotional Processing in Loneliness Through
Computer-Assisted Feedback-Based Interpretation Training" in Computers in
Human Behavior
Authors:
Yuseok Jeong, Sang Hee Kim
Abstract :
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.