Affective responses to expected and unexpected social evaluation in a collaborative task

This pre-registration outlines plans for our project investigating the impact of manipulating “social value”, i.e. how much an individual’s participation in a group is an asset versus a burden to others, on their momentary affect and self-focused attention. The project will also investigate how individuals build expectations of the social environment through observation, and how they respond when such expectations are confirmed or violated. Participants will be recruited across a broad range of symptoms of social anxiety, generalised anxiety and depression, and we will investigate how responses to social value and expectation violation vary with mental health symptoms.