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@article{2230929,
author = {Lang, Martin and Krátký, Jan and Xygalatas, Dimitrios},
article_location = {London},
article_number = {1},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23885-4},
keywords = {anxiety; ritual; predictive processing; Bayesian brain; ritualization},
language = {eng},
issn = {2045-2322},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
title = {Effects of predictable behavioral patterns on anxiety dynamics},
url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-23885-4},
volume = {12},
year = {2022}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 2230929
AU - Lang, Martin - Krátký, Jan - Xygalatas, Dimitrios
PY - 2022
TI - Effects of predictable behavioral patterns on anxiety dynamics
JF - Scientific Reports
VL - 12
IS - 1
SP - 1-9
EP - 1-9
PB - Nature Portfolio
SN - 20452322
KW - anxiety
KW - ritual
KW - predictive processing
KW - Bayesian brain
KW - ritualization
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-23885-4
N2 - 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.
ER -
LANG, Martin, Jan KRÁTKÝ and Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Effects of predictable behavioral patterns on anxiety dynamics. \textit{Scientific Reports}. London: Nature Portfolio, 2022, vol.~12, No~1, p.~1-9. ISSN~2045-2322. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23885-4.
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