Running Head: MALLEABILITY OF IMPLICIT SOCIAL REJECTION ASSOCIATIONS Cognitive Trainings Reduce Implicit Social Rejection Associations
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A Single Target Implicit Association Test (ST-IAT) was used in three internet studies in order to assess the malleability of automatic rejection associations in socially anxious 5 participants. Study 1 and Study 2 explored whether automatic rejection associations could be reduced by an evaluative conditioning task that combined social situations with acceptance. Results showed that the conditioning task reduced rejection associations in the group that completed the ST-IAT shortly after the conditioning task. In contrast, rejection associations were not significantly different from a control group when the ST-IAT 10 was assessed with a one week interval after the conditioning task. Explicit social rejection measures were not or only marginally affected by the conditioning task. Study 3 used an attentional training task that fosters sensitivity to positive social feedback (Dandeneau, Baldwin, Baccus, and Sakellaropoulo, 2007). After one week of daily training, implicit but not explicit social rejection associations were reduced by the attentional training task even 15 if they were assessed after an additional one-week interval without any training. The results show that cognitive trainings can affect implicit social rejection associations and that the effects are visible even after a period without training.
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