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DESCRIPTION:The UTC Graduate School is pleased to announce that Audrey Darn
 bush will present Master's research titled\, Emotion Recognition in Indivi
 duals with Social Anxiety: Loving-Kindness as an Intervention on 06/23/202
 3 at 2pm in 540 McCallie\, Room 357. Everyone is invited to attend. \n\nPs
 ychology\n\nChair: Dr Ashley N Howell\n\nAbstract:\nDeficits in emotion re
 cognition can often be found in individuals who have elevated social anxie
 ty—decreasing positive social interaction and increasing social avoidanc
 e. Some possible causes for these deficits include: (1) negative interpret
 ation biases for ambiguous social stimuli (e.g.\, that a neutral facial ex
 pression equates boredom)\; and negatively biased (2) self-focused attenti
 on (e.g.\, sound of voice\; shaky hands) and (3) others-focused attention 
 (e.g.\, attending only to frowning\, not smiling\, faces in an audience) i
 n social situations— which can impede accurate appraisal of how one is b
 eing evaluated. Mindfulness-based interventions target attentional awarene
 ss and some have empirical support for treating anxiety related issues. Ho
 wever\, little research has been conducted to determine the possible thera
 peutic effects of loving-kindness meditation for social anxiety. Loving-ki
 ndness meditation (LKM) is a specific subtype of mindfulness aimed to enha
 nce empathic understanding of emotional and situational awareness of self 
 and others. Loving-kindness meditation\, therefore\, shows promise in soci
 al anxiety treatment by targeting emotion recognition in both self and oth
 ers. This study empirically assessed the possible impact of a guided lovin
 g-kindness meditation induction on a subsequent emotion recognition perfor
 mance\, as well as self-reported trait measures. Individuals were given th
 e Geneva Emotion Recognition Task (GERT) after completing either a control
  condition (progressive Muscle Relaxation) or the experimental condition (
 loving-kindness meditation). We hypothesized that participants within the 
 experimental LKM group will perform better on the GERT than the control gr
 oup. Results indicated a significant difference between the group\, with t
 he LKM group scoring better on the GERT\, t(75) = -2.0\, p < 0.05. The eff
 ect size was moderate (d = -.50). Correlational analysis showed moderate r
 elationships between MINI-SPIN scores and State-Trait Anxiety (STAI) and a
 lexithymia (TAS-20)\, as well as between Positive/Negative Affect (PANAS) 
 and the MINI-SPIN.
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LOCATION:540 McCallie Ave\, 357
SUMMARY:Audrey Darnbush Dissertation Research
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utc.edu/event/audrey_darnbush_dissertation_r
 esearch
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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