ArticlePsychophysiology2018
The effect of expressive writing on the error-related negativity among individuals with chronic worry.
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- Effects of Expressive Writing on "Choking under Pressure" in High Test-Anxious Individuals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- No change in electrocortical measures of performance monitoring in high trait anxious individuals following multi-session attention bias modification training.Neuroimage. Reports · 2021Article
- Does expressive writing or an instructional intervention reduce the impacts of test anxiety in a college classroom?Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021Article
- Use of cognitive event-related potentials in the management of psychiatric disorders: Towards an individual follow-up and multi-component clinical approach.World journal of psychiatry · 2021Review
- A brief, computerized intervention targeting error sensitivity reduces the error-related negativity.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Moderation of the relationship between the error-related negativity and anxiety by age and gender in young children: A preliminary investigation.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2019Article
- Associations of Observed Performance Monitoring During Preschool With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Anterior Cingulate Cortex Volume Over 12 Years.JAMA psychiatry · 2018Observational
- PANDORA'S BOX.BJPsych international · 2017Article
- Targeting self-reported and neural error sensitivity: Short- and long-term effects of a one-week online intervention.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
The error-related negativity (ERN), an ERP elicited immediately after errors, is enlarged among individuals with anxiety. The relationship between anxiety and enlarged ERN has spurred interest in understanding potential therapeutic benefits of decreasing its amplitude within anxious individuals. The current study used a tailored intervention-expressive writing-in an attempt to reduce the ERN among a sample of individuals with chronic worry. Consistent with hypotheses, the ERN was reduced in the expressive writing group compared to an unrelated writing control group. Findings provide experimental support that the ERN can be reduced among anxious individuals with tailored interventions. Expressive writing may serve to "offload" worries from working memory, therefore relieving the distracting effects of worry on cognition as reflected in a decreased ERN.
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