LANG, Martin, Jan KRÁTKÝ, John SHAVER, Danijela JEROTIJEVIĆ and Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Effects of Anxiety on Spontaneous Ritualized Behavior. Online. Current Biology. London: Elsevier Science, 2015, vol. 25, No 14, p. 1892-1897. ISSN 0960-9822. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.05.049. [citováno 2024-04-23]
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Original name Effects of Anxiety on Spontaneous Ritualized Behavior
Name in Czech Efekt úzkosti na spontánní ritualizované chování
Authors LANG, Martin (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Jan KRÁTKÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), John SHAVER (840 United States of America, belonging to the institution), Danijela JEROTIJEVIĆ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Dimitrios XYGALATAS (300 Greece, belonging to the institution)
Edition Current Biology, London, Elsevier Science, 2015, 0960-9822.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 8.983
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/15:00083513
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.05.049
UT WoS 000358465600028
Keywords (in Czech) úzkost; obsesivně-kompulzivní porucha; paradigma veřejného proslovu; ritualizované chování
Keywords in English anxiety; obsessive-compulsive disorder; public speaking paradigm; ritualized behavior
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Abstract
Environmental uncertainty and uncontrollability cause psycho-physiological distress to organisms [1, 2 and 3], often impeding normal functioning [4 and 5]. A common response involves ritualization, that is, the limitation of behavioral expressions to predictable stereotypic and repetitive motor patterns [6, 7 and 8]. In humans, such behaviors are also symptomatic of psychopathologies like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) [8 and 9] and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) [10 and 11]. Although these reactions might be mediated by different neural pathways, they serve to regain a sense of control over an uncertain situation [12, 13, 14 and 15] by engaging in behavioral patterns characterized by redundancy (superfluous actions that exceed the functional requirements of a goal), repetitiveness (recurrent behaviors or utterances), and rigidity (emphasis on fidelity and invariance) [ 8, 9, 16 and 17]. We examined whether ritualized behavior will manifest spontaneously as a dominant behavioral strategy in anxiogenic situations. Manipulating anxiety, we used motion-capture technology to quantify various characteristics of hand movements. We found that induced anxiety led to an increase in repetitiveness and rigidity, but not redundancy. However, examination of both psychological and physiological pathways revealed that repetitiveness and rigidity were predicted by an increase in heart rate, while self-perceived anxiety was a marginally significant predictor of redundancy. We suggest that these findings are in accordance with an entropy model of uncertainty [ 18], in which anxiety motivates organisms to return to familiar low-entropy states in order to regain a sense of control. Our results might inform a better understanding of ritual behavior and psychiatric disorders whose symptoms include over-ritualization.
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