Evidence that disrupted orienting to evaluative social feedback undermines error correction in rejection sensitive women.

ABSTRACT: For individuals high in Rejection Sensitivity (RS), a learned orientation to anxiously expect rejection from valued others, negative feedback from social sources may disrupt engagement with learning opportunities, impeding recovery from mistakes. One context in which this disruption may be particularly pronounced is among women high in RS following evaluation by a male in authority. To investigate this prediction, 40 college students (50% female) answered general knowledge questions followed by immediate performance feedback and the correct answer while we recorded event-related potentials. Error correction was measured with a subsequent surprise retest. Performance feedback was either nonsocial (asterisk/tone) or social (male professor's face/voice). Attention and learning were indexed re

SUBMITTER: Mangels JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6154388 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature