Leiva Isabel, Reisman Samantha S, Helion Chelsea, Murty Vishnu P, Jarcho Johanna
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
J Mood Anxiety Disord. 2025 Mar;9. doi: 10.1016/j.xjmad.2025.100105. Epub 2025 Jan 9.
We often underestimate how much others enjoy initial interactions with us - a phenomenon known as the liking gap. While widely documented, less research has explored how individual differences such as social anxiety and negative social experiences influence the liking gap. To test this, female and non-binary dyads (N = 23) varying in severity of social anxiety and exposure to peer victimization, completed semi-structured dialogues with strangers. Following the interaction, participants rated their own enjoyment and their assumption of their partner's enjoyment of the interaction. Consistent with past literature, participants underestimated their partner's enjoyment. The magnitude of the liking gap was greater for participants with more exposure to peer victimization, but not social anxiety. The relationship with peer victimization was specifically linked to incorrect perceptions about their partner's enjoyment. This suggests that the liking gap may be susceptible to individual differences in peer victimization, rather than a broader phenotype of social anxiety.
我们常常低估他人有多享受与我们的初次互动——这一现象被称为喜好差距。尽管有大量文献记载，但较少有研究探讨诸如社交焦虑和负面社交经历等个体差异如何影响喜好差距。为了对此进行测试，具有不同社交焦虑程度和遭受同伴欺凌经历的女性和非二元性别二人组（N = 23）与陌生人进行了半结构化对话。互动结束后，参与者对自己的享受程度以及对伴侣互动享受程度的假设进行了评分。与过去的文献一致，参与者低估了伴侣的享受程度。对于遭受同伴欺凌经历更多的参与者来说，喜好差距的幅度更大，但社交焦虑程度并非如此。与同伴欺凌的关系具体与对伴侣享受程度的错误认知有关。这表明喜好差距可能易受同伴欺凌方面个体差异的影响，而非社交焦虑这一更广泛的表现型。
