Effects of predictable behavioral patterns on anxiety dynamics

J 2022

Effects of predictable behavioral patterns on anxiety dynamics

LANG, Martin, Jan KRÁTKÝ a Dimitrios XYGALATAS

Základní údaje

Originální název

Effects of predictable behavioral patterns on anxiety dynamics

Autoři

LANG, Martin (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí), Jan KRÁTKÝ (203 Česká republika, domácí) a Dimitrios XYGALATAS (300 Řecko)

Vydání

Scientific Reports, London, Nature Portfolio, 2022, 2045-2322

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60304 Religious studies

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 4.600

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/22:00127133

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23885-4

UT WoS

000881825800013

Klíčová slova anglicky

anxiety; ritual; predictive processing; Bayesian brain; ritualization

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 17. 3. 2023 16:49, Mgr. Ivona Vrzalová

Anotace

V originále

People face stressors that are beyond their control and that maladaptively perpetuate anxiety. In these contexts, rituals emerge as a natural coping strategy helping decrease excessive anxiety. However, mechanisms facilitating these purported effects have rarely been studied. We hypothesized that repetitive and rigid ritual sequences help the human cognitive-behavioral system to return to low-entropy states and assuage anxiety. This study reports a pre-registered test of this hypothesis using a Czech student sample (n = 268). Participants were exposed to an anxiety induction and then randomly assigned to perform one of three actions: ritualized, control, and neutral (no-activity). We assessed the effects of this manipulation on cognitive and physiological anxiety, finding that ritualized action positively affected anxiety decrease, but this decrease was only slightly larger than in the other two conditions. Nevertheless, the between-condition differences in the reduction of physiological anxiety were well-estimated in participants more susceptible to anxiety induction.

Návaznosti

EE2.3.20.0048, projekt VaV

Název: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství

MUNI/G/0985/2017, interní kód MU

Název: Economic Decision-Making: Hormonal Determinants and Ritualized Behavior

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Economic Decision-Making: Hormonal Determinants and Ritualized Behavior, INTERDISCIPLINARY - Mezioborové výzkumné projekty

Citovat

LANG, Martin, Jan KRÁTKÝ a Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Effects of predictable behavioral patterns on anxiety dynamics. Scientific Reports. London: Nature Portfolio, 2022, roč. 12, č. 1, s. 1-9. ISSN 2045-2322. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23885-4.

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LANG, Martin, Jan KRÁTKÝ a Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Effects of predictable behavioral patterns on anxiety dynamics. \textit{Scientific Reports}. London: Nature Portfolio, 2022, roč.~12, č.~1, s.~1-9. ISSN~2045-2322. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23885-4.

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