DePaulo B M, Epstein J A, LeMay C S
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22903.
J Pers. 1990 Dec;58(4):623-40. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1990.tb00247.x.
We predicted that socially anxious people who are faced with the prospect of an interpersonal evaluation will act in an inhibited and withdrawn way. Subjects who scored low or high on a measure of social anxiety told four stories about themselves to an interviewer. In the anticipated-evaluation condition, the subjects learned that after they had told their stories, the interviewer would tell them her impressions of them. In the control condition, no mention was made of an evaluation. Judges rated transcripts of the stories. As predicted, socially anxious subjects who thought they were going to be evaluated (relative to anxious subjects in the control condition and nonanxious subjects in both conditions) told shorter stories, and the events in their stories were commonplace rather than unique. Their stories were also less revealing about them as individuals, and less vivid. Contrary to a second prediction, socially anxious subjects who expected to be evaluated did not act any less inhibited or withdrawn when their interviewers were described as very trusting than when they were described as very wary. Implications are discussed.
我们预测，面临人际评估前景的社交焦虑者会表现出抑制和退缩的行为。在社交焦虑测量中得分低或高的受试者向一名面试官讲述了四个关于自己的故事。在预期评估条件下，受试者得知在他们讲完故事后，面试官会告诉他们对他们的印象。在控制条件下，没有提及评估。评委对故事的文字记录进行了评分。正如预测的那样，认为自己将被评估的社交焦虑受试者（相对于控制条件下的焦虑受试者和两种条件下的非焦虑受试者）讲述的故事更短，而且他们故事中的事件平淡无奇而非独特。他们的故事对他们个人的揭示也更少，也不那么生动。与第二个预测相反，当面试官被描述为非常值得信任时，预期会被评估的社交焦虑受试者在行为上的抑制或退缩程度并不比被描述为非常谨慎时更低。本文讨论了相关影响。
